Stamp News Australasia - January 2021

Postal Stationery from the quote provided by Garratt and Atkinson.

On 1 July 1911, Victoria asked whether the sale of cards should be discontinued and if they should be destroyed as the demand for the cards had not met expectations and they still had £504/11/9 worth of the cards. The Post Office obtained advice from the other States about remaining stocks.

In New South Wales the total supply of £216 worth of cards had been distributed to postmasters. A survey of major post offices had shown that they had received £58/10/0 in coronation postcards with £12/15/0 remaining.

The cards had sold fairly well but demand had ceased at the end of June.

Queensland reported that the ‘cards cannot be said to have sold well’ and that ‘if the cards had not been distributed as ordinary cards there would have been a large stock remaining’.

In all 81,000 cards were distributed to post offices in Queensland between 23 May and 27 July while a further 80,000 cards remained undistributed. The cards did not sell well in South Australia and about £1,100 worth remained on hand. Western Australia had been supplied with £300 in coronation postcards and £262 worth had been distributed to post offices. They had sold well at some post offices especially in June but there Figure 14 Duke of Cornwall, Diffuse Oval Background, Brown was now little demand and Figure 15 Stamped Envelope for the 50th Anniversary of Australia Zoo £38 worth were held by the Figure 16 Reverse of Stamped Envelope for the 50th Anniversary of Australia stamp issuer with further Zoo stocks at individual post of26 - Stamp News