Saturday, 26 September 2020

Ballugan

Ballugan post office, 24 km north of Kilkivan. It was the office of the Culgoa Copper Mine and was 3 km west of the Ballugan station homestead. According to Frew, it opened as a receiving office in 1904 and was elevated to a post office around January 1910 before being reduced to a receiving office later that year and closing entirely in mid-1911. However these dates to not tie in with those seen on the Ballugan datestamps, which suggests the post office was in operation sometime between 1907 and 1909
  • Datestamp type 5b (26 November 1907 - 19 January 1909) rated 5R - $75

Datestamp type 5b
1908

Ballugan datestamp type 5b. Dated 7 November 1908. Rated 5R. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group

Unknown year

Ballugan datestamp type 5b. Rated 5R. Seen in Manning, p. 22

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