Three types of date stamps were produced specially for use at Telegraph Offices:
This format of date stamp was used in few offices apart from for the Chief Telegraph Office at Hobart. The only other example known is a Zeehan.
Two designs within this format have been identified:
![]() RO3 - TO. Telegraph Office/Hobart in black. 26 April 1898. Has 1 line in both the outside oval Several designs for the division between words. Examples recorded only for Hobart. |
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Has 2 lines in the outside oval and 1 line for the inside oval. Size: 28 × 41.5 mm (e = 0.74). Examples recorded for Hobart, Launceston and Zeehan. |
2. Rubber rectangular date stamps.
At least one office used this format for date stamps. The size of the rectangular date stamp is large.
Modern unbordered straight line C.T.O. date stamps are excluded from this category.
![]() Launceston (RRH-1). 28 September 1894. Has a consecutive counter number to the right of the date. Size: 26 × 58 mm. Used on TC-DO-4B. |
At least two offices - Burnie and Devonport - used this format with either T.O. or TELEGRAPH OFFICE for their date stamps.
Burnie | ![]() Telegraph Office with Burnie at base. Small square dots. 6 May 1953. Long date line. |
![]() T. O. Burnie with TAS-AUST at base. 4 mm side arcs. 6 January 1954. Long date line. |
![]() Telegraph Office, Burnie with TAS-AUST at base. Very small side arcs. 15 September 1972. Short date line. |
Devonport. | ![]() Telegraph Office with Devonport at base. Small square dots. 8 January 1934. Possible that WEST has been removed. Diameter: |