Western Australia.
Rubber oval Post & Telegraph Office date stamps.

Examples of the oval date stamps of Western Australia which are inscribed Post & Telegraph Office (or similar words) are summarised below. Oval date stamps headed TELEGRAPH OFFICE are described elsewhere.

A full listing can be viewed elsewhere.

Easy finder - click first letter of office: A B C D E F G H
I J K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W XYZ

 

A

Arthur River 1904
Arthur River Telegraph Office.
RO6 - TO in violet.
9 September 1904.

Rated RRRR.

Used: 9 September 1904 to March 1907.

 

  
       
B Blackboy Hill
Blackboy Hill Post & Telegraph Office.
30 October 1914.
RO7 - P&TO.

ACE Stamp Auctions Sale 7 Lot 597.

 Boyanup 1899
Boyanup Post &Telegraph Office.
7 February 1899.
RO2 - P&TO.

Size: 26 × 41 mm (e = 0.77).
 

Bd Arrow
Broad Arrow Post & Telegraph Office.
1 November 1902.
RO2 - P&T in blue.

Size: 26 × 41 mm (e = 0.77).

Used on WC-DO-5B.

Bussleton
Busselton Post & Telegraph Office.
23 January 1953.
RO6 - P&T in violet.
Size: 32 × 53 mm (e = 0.80).

Not recorded in Goulder.
Rated RRRR.

Applied as a backstamp on registered letter from Sydney.
Torsten Weller, January 2014.

  Bulong
Bulong Post & Telegraph Office.
3 July 1899.
RO7 - P&T in violet.

Bulla-Bulling
Bulla-Bulling Post & Telegraph Office.
March 1898.
RO7 - P&TO in violet.

Rated: RRRR.
C

Chidlows Well
Chidlows Well Post & Telegraph Office
(in purple) .
16 October 1914.

RO4 - P&T.
Rated RRRR.

ACE Stamp Auctions Sale 7 Lot 607.

Colliefields
Colliefields Post & Telegraph Office.
30 May (1899).

RO2 - P&T.
Rated RRRR.

 

 
 

Coolgardie RS
Coolgardie Railway Station.
5 March 1896.
RO6 - P&TO.

The earliest recorded strike (incomplete) is known for 9 January 1896 on a pair of 2d grey swans. Only 5 strikes are recorded.

Prestige Philately December 2010 Lot 542.

Cookernup
Cookernup Post & Telegraph Office.
1 January 1914.
RO7 - P&T in violet.

Rated RRRR.

  
  Cossack
Cossack Post & Telegraph Office.
29 March 1902.
RO6 - P&TO.

Size: 30 × 49 mm (e = 0.79).

Tasmanian Stamp Auctions October 2015.

 Cottersloe
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office.
12 September 1944 (very early date).
RO2 - P&T in violet.

Size: 31 × 52 mm (e = 0.80).
Used on AW-DO-10A (43).

Cottlesloe 1940
 

RO7 1912
Cue Post & Telegraph Office.
12 January 1912.

RO7 - P&TO.

See separate listing for a more detailed view of the oval Cue date stamps.

 

  
D

Day Dawn
Day Dawn Telegraph Office.
16 June 1899.

RO2 - P&TO.
Rated RRRR.

Size: 26 × 40 mm (e = 0.76).

A more extensive listing of the Day Dawn Ovals is given elsewhere.

 

  
E

 

  
F Firmiston 1905
Firmiston Post & Telegraph Office.
15 December 1905.
RO6-P&TO.
Size: 26 × 49 mm.
Rated RRRR.		  
G Goongarrie
Goongarrie RO6 - TO.		 Goon 2
Goongarrie RO6 - TO.
  Greenbushes
Greenbushes Post & Telegraph Office.
1 July 1952.
RO2-P&T.

Size: 30 ×50 mm (e = 0.80).
Rated: RRRR.

 
H

Harvey
Harvey (RO2-P&TO) in violet.
1 October 1956 (earliest recorded date).
Size: 33.5 × 54 mm (e = 0.78).

Rated: RRR.

 
J Jarrahdale
Jarrahdale Telegraph Office (RO6-TO).
23 March 1904.
Size: 27 × 45 mm (e = 0.80).		  
K Kalgoorlie 1902
Kalgoorlie Telegraph Office (RO2-TO).
29 June 1903.
Used on WI-DO-1.
Rated RRRR. 		   
 

Keller 1897
Kellerberin Telegraph Office.
5 June 1897.
RO6-TO.

Unlisted elsewhere with the one "R".

Kellerberrin 1913
Kellerberrin Post & Telegraph Office.
(Note change of spelling).
25 June 1913.
RO4 - P&TO.

Size: 28 × 43 mm (e = 0.76)

  
L
Leederville Post & Telegraph Office.
7 June 1912.
RO4 - P&TO in blue.
Size: 29 × 43 mm (e = 0.74).
Used 1912 to 1917. Rated: RRR.

Other ovals used at Leederville are:

  • RO6 - P&T used about 1912 (rated RRRR);
  • RO7 - P&T used about 1908 (rated RRRR);
  • also a rectangular rubber date stamp
    RRH - P&T used about 1975-1983 (rated RR).
M Mt Magnet
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office.
10 February 1943.
RO6 - P&T in violet.

Size: 30 × 52 mm (e = 0.82).

 Mt Magnet 1945
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office.
14 March 1945.
RO2 - P&T in violet.

Size: 30 × 51 mm (e = 0.81).
ACE Stamp Auctions July 2014 Lot 1475.

 
  Menzies
Menzies Post & Telegraph Office.
5 September 1904.
RO6 - P&T in violet.
Size: 26 × 45 mm (e = 0.82).

ACE Stamp Auctions November 2013 Lot 963.

 

  
N Newcastle
Newcastle Post & Telegraph Office.
26 January 1900.
RO6 - P&TO on block of six 1d rose.

ACE Stamp Auctions November 2013 Lot 971.

 Northam
Northam Post and Telegraph Station.
2 January 1940.
RO7 - P&TO.
Size: 25 × 42 mm (e = 0.80).		  
P Paddington
Paddington Post & Telegraph Station.
Unknown date.
RO2 - P&TO in violet.		  
  Peak Hill
Peak Hill Post & Telegraph Office.
December 1898.
RO2 - P&TO. 27 × 41 mm (e = 0.75).
Used 1898-1899. Rated RRRR.

Prestige Philately, November 2013 Lot 520.

 
R Roebourne
Roebourne Post & Telegraph (Office?).
17 August ??.
RO2 - P&TO in violet.		 Ravensthorpe
Ravensthorpe Post & Telegraph Office.
5 August 1909.

RO6 - P&TO.

On postcard - see Prestige Philately Feb 2012 Lot 754.

  
S Sth Cross
Southern Cross Telegraph Office.
25 May 1904.
RO6-TO.		 Subiaco
Subiaco Post & Telegraph Office.
28 January 1954.
RO6 - P&TO used in violet.

Size: 30 × 55 mm (e = 0.84).

T Tambourah
Tambourah Post & Telegraph.
6 September 1889.
RO2 - P&TO in violet.
Size: 26 mm high.		 Tambourah blue
Tambourah Post & Telegraph.
Incomplete date.
RO2 -P&TO in blue.
Reported as being used only between
6 and 13 September 1899.
Clearly this example is outside that range.
 

Toodyay
Toodyay Post & Telegraph Office.
9 October 1918.
RO7 - P&TO (in green).

Used on WI-DO-3C.

Rating RRRR.

  
Y Yarloop
Yarloop Post & Telegraph Office.
22 September 1904.
RO2 - P&T in blue.

Filled in circles for division between words.

Used 15 September to 28 December 1904.
Rated: RRRR.

Yarloop 1918
Yarloop Post & Telegraph Office.
7 September 1898.
RO2 - P&T in blue.

Thinner letters and small dots for division between words.
2 digit year.

Prestige Philately February 2009 Lot 427.
 

York
York Post & Telegraph Office
2 March 1903.

Used about 1903.
Rated RRRR.

Provenance: Mike Brachi.
Spink 19 May 2015, Vestey Collection Lot 453.