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LAfUXD BY OFFICE CLEANER IN WASTE PAPER United Press Assn, bv El. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 0 The fact that an office cleaner at the Inlaid Revenue Department is a keen stamp collector _ brought to light, a missing link in Tasmania’s philatelic history. Among the liter in some waste paper the cleaner discovered an aged, discolored letter with a. sketch stamp. He took it to the vice-president of the Royal Philatelic Society, who identified it as tlio design of Tasmania’s first Lon-don-printed stamp, sent by tlio Governor of Tasmania, in 180.3 to the Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Noncastle.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 5
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101VALUABLE STAMP Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11126, 8 February 1930, Page 5
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