Australia - Brown years: 1923-1939.
1937 Mothers' Day Greetings: AB-GM-37.
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T.G. 42F.
Envelope has number T.G. 65F (opaque).
Heading was MOTHERS' DAY GREETING TELEGRAM.
Message area: 5 lines.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Black on cream.
Size of form overall: 193 × 222 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
  • centre line "Received..." ends with "message";
  • line above sender details ends with "Tasmania".
 
   
   

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-1A None 4 July 1905 at Burnie. NC
       
       
       
Where do you want to go next? Return to the top. Back to the 1934 Mothers's Day Greetings form. To the 1939 Mothers's Day Greetings form. Ornamental Telegrams home page.  The second design for Mothers' Day ornamental greetings telegrams was released in April 1937 and it was issued again during the month before Mothers' Day in 1937. It featured a bowl of flowers in the top left corner.
The number of Mothers' Day forms issued rose from 37,000 in 1937 to 47,833 in 1938.
AB-GMF-37A AB-GMF-37.

Unused delivery form although taken from a specimen booklet as shown by the number "358" in the lower left corner.

Characteristics:

  • dramatic blue band around two sides of the form.
AB-GME-37A AB-GME-37A.

Opaque delivery envelope used at Geelong West
(7 May 1938).

Characteristics:

  • dramatic blue band around two sides of the form repeated on the opaque delivery envelope.
AB-GME-37 358
AB-GME-37A.

Opaque delivery envelope with advertising/Specimen number 358 matching the above form.

 Specimen
AB-GME-37A.

Opaque delivery envelope with SPECIMEN handstamp.
AB-GME-37B AB-GME-37B.

Unused window envelope.

Has Form number T.G. 65M.

This item is very rare.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
GMF-37 None.   NC
GME-37A None. 7 May 1938 at Geelong West, Vic. RR (used)
GME-37B None.   RRR