Australia - Interim period: 1901-1917.
Delivery form: AI-DO-1.

 
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form E.T. No. 1.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA above TELEGRAM.
Message area: Blank.
Reverse side: Blank.
Colours (text & form): Blue on cream.
Size of form overall: 145 × 210 mm.
Size of datestamp box: 31.5 × 35 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:

 This form is very unusual and difficult to classify:

AI-DO-1 AI-DO-1.

Hobart to Melbourne
31 August 1906 at Telegraph Branch.

Characteristics:

  • has COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA heading as do the normal post-1917 Australian telegraph forms;
  • font and layout are the same as those used on the contemporaneous Victorian delivery form issued during the Interim period
    (VI-DO-1);
  • text at the top is the same as for the Victorian form except the "Complaints" now go to the Deputy Postmaster-General.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number
Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
DO-1 C. 12608 31 August 1906 at Telegraph Branch, Melbourne. RRR