Australia: Seaside #177 / VFNH / 5sh Queen Elizabeth

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Australia Stamp: 5sh Queen Elizabeth

CONDITION: VF Mint Never Hinged

Lower right corner has glazing from stamp mount

SPECIFICATIONS:
     Minkus: Australia #234  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Scott: Australia #177  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Seaside: Australia #177  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Year of Issue: 1938
     Denomination: 5sh
     Printing Type: engr

Australia may be referred to with the following: australian.

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Alger's Express: Private local parcel, serviced Mass.; label, 1875.
Petards: Fireworks; French Colonies revenue inscription.
Hurricane Hattie: Overprint on stamps of British Honduras, semi-postal for hurricane of Oct. 31, 1961.
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Retourmarken: (German) return to sender handstamp or seal.
Levy: (Czech) left (side).
Delgado: (Spanish) thin.
Alcaniz: Local, Spanish civil war, Republican, 1937.
EXP. I: (German) first delivery of the post.
Briefbeförderung Deutscher Herold: Local post, Frankfurt am Oder, Germany, 1886-1900.
Islas de Juan Fernandez: (Spanish) overprint on stamps of Chile for Juan Fernandez Islands, 1910.
Royal Family Birthday, Anniversary: Common design of the British Commonwealth of Nations, 1991.
Okupace turecky: (Czech) Turkish occupation.
Kuba: (German, Swedish) Cuba.
Brick's Express: Local parcel firm serviced Boston, Mass. and part of Maine; used a label, year unknown.
Aledschen, Alsedziai: Lithuanian city; 1941: German military overprint on Russian stamps "Laisa/Alsedziai/24-VI-41."
Repoeblik Indonesia: Bogus labels by independence forces before Indonesia became a republic.
New Earth (Island): Bogus Russian republic, not valid for postage.
Amiens: French city; 1909, May 13-19: issued local provisionals issued by the Chamber of Commerce during a strike by postal employees.
Sello da Tasa: (Spanish) postage due.
Niles & Co's Express: Parcel firm serviced Boston, Mass., and Dover, N.H.; used labels, year unknown.
Franske skipspost: (Norwegian) French ship mail (ship post).
Rózsaszin: (Hungarian) pink (color).
Chateau-Renault: Local post provisional, France, 1944.
Tasmania: Island off southeastern coast of Australia, British Crown Colony; currency: 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound 1803: taken by Great Britain, used as a penal colony, 1853, Nov.1: No.1, 1 pence blue, stamps issued with original name of Van Diemen's Land; 1853-61: used bar oval as postmark, 1858, Jan.: No.1, 6 pence gray lilac, Tasmania name first used on stamps, 1863: first postal fiscal stamp, 1891: joined the UPU, 1901: one of the six British Colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia, 1913: Tasmania replaced by stamps of Australia; see Australia.

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