Pricing

Prices are in Australian dollars and are included for Queensland date stamps and instructional markings for each post office. The price listed is the retail price and is the

• premium that is added to the existing catalog value for a given stamp issue to arrive at an estimated price when buying or selling an item (see the Boer War charity stamp example below)
• in the case of a cancel on an issue not normally seen postally used - eg a postal cancel on a railway stamp - the rarity of this combination needs to be taken into account and priced accordingly (see the railway stamp example below)

This handbook is a listing only. Nothing is for sale here

Stamps
Prices are for stamps in good condition with a clear date stamp or instructional marking showing all or most of the date stamp or marking. Partial, hard to decipher, illegible or smudged date stamps will be worth considerably less. The same applies to good date stamps on stamps that are riddled with rust

Covers and Postcards

Postal history is harder to accurately price as factors such as the destination, the route, the postage rate at the time, other cancels and markings etc. need to be taken into account. Therefore prices on cover reflect only the scarcity on cover of the date stamp itself and do not take these other factors into account

Townsville datestamp type 5a. Dated 21 November 1907. Rated common. $3 and no premium for the stamp itself, which is very common

George Street datestamp type 4at Dated 27 July 1900. Rated common. $12 on cover plus a significant premium for the stamp itself, which is priced in the Stanley Gibbons (2019) catalogue at £240 on cover!

Morven datestamp type 3a dated 14 November 1901. Rated common. Courtesy of Dave Elsmore. $5 cancel plus a significant premium because, as it is on a railway stamp not a postal stamp. it is most probably unique