Telegram from
Sydney, Australia
to
Bordeaux, France
27 January 1882.

Delivery form which can be folded to form the envelope.

This scan shows the telegram fully opened.

As international telegrams were very expensive, almost all used code.

This message reads:
THOAT SINCE SEDULOUS TIDAL

which, after translation, reads:

Melbourne, Sydney and Noumea have remitted since 23 November £9,000.

(Ed: this amount would have been mainly for brandy and other spirits plus wine).

The form measures (without the flap) 132 × 233 mm.

The folded form with an address label from the teletype tape, Also has a sealing stamp which had to be broken on opening.

Overall size: 67 × 118 mm.