First Day Cover & Commemorative Cover List
Commemorative Covers
The following are a selection
of interesting &
popular souvenir covers - all addressed as usual
All prices are in $A. Please allow $4 within Australia and
$12 Overseas for registered posting, packing and insurance.
UN - Unaddressed; AD
- Addressed (addressed covers are neat)
FDC - First Day Cover; SC - Souvenir
Covers
| Year | Description | $A |
| Commemorative Covers | AD | |
| 1948 Nov 15 | 2½d Scouting on “Pan- Pacific Jamboree” FDC / SC | 15 |
| 1951 Jul 2 | 3d Gold pair on Bendigo Philatelic Exhibition SC | 20 |
| 1951 Dec 7 | Round Australia Air Mail SC from Canberra, violet cachet and 8 backstamps! | 20 |
| 1952 May 9 | “Geebex” Exhibition cover, illustration in red and green | 25 |
| 1952 May 9 | - as above in black & green | 25 |
| - as above in brown & green | 25 | |
| - the above three as a set | 70 | |
| 1952 Sept 1 | Aust-South Africa, first direct regular Air Mail SC, violet cachet & backstamps | 15 |
| 1954 Nov 17 | 3½d Antarctic Research FDC, with ‘ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS” handstamp in violet | 15 |
| 1954 Dec 28 | - similar cover, cancelled first day of issue at Macquarie Island, with commem cachet in violet | 10 |
| 1954 Feb 15 | - cancelled at Mawson, with different adhesives and “1954 ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION” handstamp in violet | 20 |
| 1955 Nov 23 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Mainland postal services SC, with triangular cachet in violet | 10 |
| - as above with QEII 1/0½d adhesive on Australia Post Official Hermes cover, additionally handstamped “AIR MAIL” | 15 | |
| 1956 Nov 22 | Olympic Torch flight SC from Athens to Melbourne, backstamped with “Shot putter” commem cancel | 25 |
| 1957 Nov 23 | 40th Anniversary of Adelaide- Gawler Air Mail SC with violet cachet and special label | 20 |
| 1958 Sept 10 | 30th Anniversary Trans- Tasman flight SC, rectangle cachet in black | 12 |
| 1958 Sept 29 | “French Fair” commem cancellation SC | 15 |
| 1959 Feb 28 | Begonia Festival, Ballarat “Helicopter Mail”, SC with violet cachet, most attractive | 20 |
| 1959 Feb 28 | Mount Kosciusko SC posted from the Summit | 8 |
| 1960 Sept 30 | SAPEX (South Australian Exhibition) SC | 15 |
| 1960 Nov 2 | QUSCEX (Queensland Exhibition) SC | 8 |
| 1960 Nov 16 | QANTAS 40th Anniversary Round the World Flight - unusual long type SC | 20 |
ALL PRICES ARE IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS
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