Australia - 1918-1988.
Types of telegrams available.

Telegrams were designed to assist with a variety of purposes - especially for commemorative purposes.

Many types of telegraph stationery carried advertisements describing the types of telegrams which were available. The themes can be grouped as follows:

  1. The Telegraph Phonogram Facility.
  2. Reply Paid Telegrams.
  3. Generic Social telegrams for special occasions.
1. Phonogram Facility.
TELEGRAPH PHONOGRAM FACILITY.

Used as the first advertisement of three on the reverse side of ordinary rate delivery form AB-DO-7D.

Printed in March 1930 and used at TELEGRAPHS Wagga Wagga on 9 June 1934.

For a review of Phonograms and the forms used, see elsewhere.


2. Reply Paid telegrams.


A REPLY PAID TELEGRAM...

Used as the lower advertisement on the front side of ordinary rate delivery envelope AW-EO-14E.

For a discussion of the Reply Paid telegrams, see elsewhere.





A REPLY PAID TELEGRAM...

Used as the advertisement in the top left corner on the front side of urgent rate delivery envelope AW-EU-9A.


3. Generic Social telegrams.
USE THE TELEGRAPH FOR ...

Used as the top left advertisement on the front side of urgent delivery envelope AB-EU-3 used at Glen Iris, Victoria on 4 April 1931.

For a summary of the Ornamental Social telegrams, see elsewhere.
Send a Telegram (and)
Send a Reply-Paid Telegram.

Used as the first of three advertisements on the reverse side of delivery form AB-DO-7Ba.

Printed in April 1933 and used at CTO Melbourne on 4 April 1934.

Also used on:
  1. the August 1933 printing;
Ornamental telegram forms ...

Used in the top left corner of the front of opaque and window delivery envelopes from about 1938 onwards (AW-EO-7 to AW-EO-10).
Ornamental telegram forms ...

Used on the flap of ordinary PMG correspondence envelopes about 1937.

Ornamental telegram forms were used
for a variety of purposes from 1929 to the late 1950s.

This advertisement was used on the reverse side
of transmission form AB-TO-7C on 7 May 1936.

It has a scarce image of Hermes in a circle and printed in black.