Western Australia.
Listing of the Telegraph oval date stamps.

A large number of Telegraph Offices or Post & Telegraph Offices in Western Australia have been issued with oval date stamps for use with Telegrams and with ordinary mail. A listing of these date stamps is given below with examples provided elsewhere. Perth is described in the CTO section.

Most of the oval date stamps are very rare - some with only one or two examples known.

The classification of the date stamps follows the Australia-wide scheme.

Office name Type of office Type of date stamp Approx date of use Rarity rating Size
Abbotts Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 31 May 1900 RRRR Ace (7, 368)
Albany K.G.S Telegraph Office RO6 - TO in red 2 Dec. 1889 - 18 Sept. 1890 RRRR 25 × 38 mm
Applecross Telegraph Office RO1 - TO.   C  
Armadale Telegraph Office RO2 - TO   RR  
Armadale Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO   RRRR  
Arthur River Telegraph Office RO6 - TO in violet. 9 Sept 1904 - March 1907. RRRR  
           
Balbarrup Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO   RRRR  
Balbarrup Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO   RRRR  
Balga Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO   RRRR  
Balladonia Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO   RRRR  
Balladonia Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO   RRRR  
Bamboo Creek Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 2 December 1898    
Black Flag Telegraph Office RO7 - TO 14 Dec. 1899 RRRR  
Blackboy Hill Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 30 Oct. 1914 - 1915 RRRR ACE (7, 597)
Boulder Telegraph Office RO7 - TO 31 January 1916 -
31 Aug. 1916		 RRR  
Boulder Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO   RRR 29 × 49mm
Boulder Telegraph Office RO2 - TO 1944 - 47 RRR  
Boulder Telegraphs (with postcode) RO2 - T about 1976 RRR  
Boyanup Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 1899 RRR  
Boyanup Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1914 RRRR  
Bridgetown Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 1899 - 1902 RRR  
Bridgetown Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1912 RRR  
Bridgetown Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1916 RRR  
Bridgetown Post & Telegraph Office (with postcode) RO2 - P&TO   R  
Broad Arrow Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO in blue 1901-02 RRR  
Broad Arrow Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO 1913 RRR  
Broome Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1909 RRRR  
Broome Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO Dec 1913 - Jan 1914 RRRR  
Broome Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TD 1923 RRRR  
Bulla-Bulling Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO March 1898 - 99 (?) RRRR  
Bulong Telegraph Office RO6 - TO in violet   RRRR  
Bulong Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO in violet 1899 RRRR  
Bunbury Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1908 R  
Bunbury Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1976 C  
Busselton Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 28 June 1899 - 1929 RRR  
Busselton Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1938 - Jan 1953 RRR  
Busselton Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO August 1955 RRR 33 × 53 mm
Busselton Post & Telegraph Office W.A. RO4 - P&TO about 1961 RRR 31 × 50 mm
           
Capel Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1902 RRRR  
Carnarvon Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1934 RRR  
Chidlow's Well Post & Telegraph Office
(in purple)		 RO4 - P&TO 16 Oct. 1914 RRRR ACE (7, 607)
Claremont Showground Telegraph Off. RO6 - TO about 1905 RRRR  
Claremont Showground Post & Tel'h Off. RO7 - P&TO about 1920 RRRR  
Claremont Telegraph Office RO5-TO July 1971 RRRR  
Coalville Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO September 1898 RRRR  
Collie Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1901 RRR  
Colliefields Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1899 RRRR  
Cookernup Telegraph Office RO7 - TO about 1900 RRRR  
Cookernup Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1909 RRRR  
Cookernup Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO in violet 1 January 1914 RRRR 29.5 × 42 mm.
Coolgardie Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1896 RRR  
Coolgardie Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1911-14 RRR  
Coolgardie Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1916 RRR  
Coolgardie Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1940 RR  
Coolgardie Railway Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 9 January 1896 RRRR  
Cossack Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1898 RRRR  
Cossack Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO abut 1900 RRRR  
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1904 RRR  
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1909 RR  
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO in violet 12 Sept. 1944 -
24 April 1948		 RRRR 31 × 52 mm
ACE (75, 624)
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 7 March 1956 RR Ck not included in above
Cottesloe Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1969 RR  
Cranbrook Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1972 R  
Cranbrook Post & Telegraph Off. with postcode RO6 - P&TO about 1976 R  
Cuballing Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1914 RRRR  
Cue See full description        
Cunderdin Post & Telegraph RO4 - P&T about 1915 RRR  
           
Dalwallinu Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1975 S  
Day Dawn Post & Telegraph Office
large WA		 RO2 - P&TO 21 Oct. 1890 - 1903 RRR

ACE (7, 1141)
Day Dawn Post & Telegraph Office
small WA		 RO2 - P&TO about 1903 RRRR  
Day Dawn Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1896 - 10 March 1897 RRRR 23 × 44 mm
Day Dawn Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 17 January 1907 RRRR  
Day Dawn Post & Telegraph Office WA RO7 - P&TO about 15 November 1910 RRRR 24 × 46 mm.
Derby Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1976 RR  
Diorite King Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1901 RRRR  
Dongara Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1902 RRRR  
Donnybrook Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1976-78 R  
           
East Fremantle Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 9 Sept. 1905 RRRR ACE (7, 376)
East Fremantle Telegraph Office RO2 - TO 1948 RRRR  
East Fremantle Telegraph Office RO7 - TO 1946-48 R 30× 52 mm
East Kirrup Post & Telegraph Office RO7-P&TO about 1928 RRRR  
           
Fitzroy River Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1898 RRRR  
           
Geraldton Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1940 RRRR  
Gnowangerup Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1914 RRRR  
Goongarrie Telegraph Office RO6 - TO in violet 5 Mar 1896-97 RRRR  
Goongarrie Telegraph Office RO2 - TO   RRRR  
Gosnels Telegraph Section RO2 - TS   RRRR  
Grass Valley Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO in violet   RRRR  
Greenbushes Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 1 July 1952 RRRR 30 ×50 mm
Greenbushes Telegraph Office RO7 - TO   RRRR  
Greenough Telegraph Office RO6 - TO   RR  
Guilford Telegraph Office RO6 - TO   RRRR  
Gwalia Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO   RRRR  
           
Halls Creek Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR  
Harvey Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1904 RRRR  
Harvey Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 2 figure year RRRR  
Harvey Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1963 RR  
Harvey Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1975 RR  
Helena Vale Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO   RRRR  
Horrocks Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1950 RRRR  
Jarrahdale Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1904 RRRR  
Kalamunda Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1925 RRR  
Kalgoorlie Telegraph Office RO2 - TO 1900 - 29 June 1903 RRRR  
Katanning Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1903 RRR  
Katanning Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 16 August 1943 RRR 31 × 52 mm
Katanning Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1912 RRR 24 × 48 mm
Katanning Telegraph Office RO7 - TO about 1914 RRR 23 × 48 mm
Kellerberin Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 1897 RRRR "only 1 r"
Kellerberrin Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1896-98 RRR  
Kellerberrin Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO 1913 - 1915 RRRR  
Kellerberrin Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1942 RRRR  
Kookynie Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1902 RRRR  
Kojonup Post & Telegraph Office RO7-P&TO about 1915 RRR  
Kulin Post & Telegraph Office RRH - P&TO about 1963 RRR  
           
Laverton Telegraph Station RO2 - TS June/July 1900 RRRR 25 × 49 mm.
Laverton Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 19 July 1900 - 1903 RRRR 26 × 41 mm.
Lawlers Telegraph Office RO2 - TO about 1898 RRRR  
Lawlers Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1912 RRRR  
Leederville Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1908 RRRR  
Leederville Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1912 RRRR  
Leederville Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1912-17 RRR 30 × 43 mm.
Leederville Telegraph Office RO2 - TO about 1940s RRRR 31 × 47 mm.
Leederville Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO March 1940 - Nov 1943 RRRR 24 × 41 mm.
Mt. Leonora Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1897 - 18 Oct. 1899 RRRR 27 × 44 mm.
Mt. Leonora Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO January 1903 RRRR 27 × 41 mm
Mt. Leonora Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1904-05 RRRR  
Mount Leonora Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1908 RRRR  
Leonora
(Mount erased)		 Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1914 RRRR  
           
Malcolm (Mt). Telegraph Office RO6 - TO in blue about 1897 RRRR  
Malcolm Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO in blue about 1913 RRRR  
Mandurah Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR  
Mandurah Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1907 RRRR  
Mandurah Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO

about 1963

 RR 31 × 48 mm
Manjimup
("J" subscripted)		 Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1961 C 31 × 53 mm.
Manjimup
("J" in line)		 Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1962 C 31 × 44 mm.
Marble Bar Telegraph Office RO7 - TO about 1900 RRRR  
Marvel Loch Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1913 RRRR  
Maylands Post & Telegraph RO4 - P&T about 1914 RRRR 36 × 42 mm.
Maylands Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T about 1924 RRRR 37 × 43 mm.
Maylands Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1945 RRRR 35 × 42 mm.
Maylands Post & Telegraph RO2 - P&T 1975-77 RR  
Meekatharra Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1928 RRRR  
Meekatharra Telegraph Office RO2 - P&T about 1962 RRR  
Menzies Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1904 RRRR  
Menzies Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 3 Mar 1904 - 5 Sept. 1904 RRRR  
Menzies Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 18 Sept. 1904 RRRR  
Merredin Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1937 RRRR  
Midland
(with postcode)		 Telegraphs RO2 - T about 1951 RR  
Midland Junction Post & Telegraph RO6 - P&T

about 1902

(also known without date)

 RRRR  
Midland Junction P & TO RO7 - P&T about 1915 RRRR  
Midland Junction Post & Telegraph RO6 - P&T about 1943 RR  
Midland Junction Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T about 1943 RR  
Midland Junction Post & Telegraph RO2 - P&T 1945-46 RR 31 × 52 mm
Minginew Telegraph Office RO6 - TO   RRRR  
Minginew Post & Telegraph Office RO6(?) - P&TO 10 Aug. 1907 RRRR 31 × 50 mm
Mooliabeenie Post & Telegraph RO4 - P&T   RRRR  
Mount Lawley Telegraph Office, Mt Lawley RO2 - TO about 1944 RRRR  
Mount Lawley Telegraphs RO2 - TO about 1950 RRRR  
Mount Leonora (see Leonora above)        
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO 1910+ RRRR  
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 10 Feb. 1943 - 1944 RRRR  
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO   RRRR ACE (7, 1264)
Mount Magnet Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1945 RRRR  
Mount Malcolm Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1897 RRRR See Malcolm.
Mount Margaret Telegraph Office RO7 - TO about 1899 RRRR  
Mount Morgan Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1899 RRRR  
Mullewa Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1899 RRRR  
Mullewa Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1945 RRRR  
Mundijong
(from Manjedal)		 Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1898 - 1906 RRR  
Mundijong Post & Telegraph - RO6 - P&T   RRRR  
Murgoo Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO   RRRR  
Murrin Murrin Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1896 RRRR  
Murrin Murrin Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1913 RRRR  
           
Nannine Telegraph Office RO2 - TO 4 Dec. 1900 RRRR ACE (7, 1281)
Narrogin Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1963 RR  
Nedlands Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 1930s RRRR  
New Norcia Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 31 May 1895 RRRR ACE (12, 885)
Newcastle Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1894 RRRR  
Newcastle Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 1898 - 1910
(26 Jan 1900, 24 Mar 1903)		 RRR ACE (7, 1284)
Newcastle Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1906 RRRR  
Newman Telegraph Office RO2-TO 27 Sept 1976. RRR  
Niagara Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 5 March 1904 RRRR (ACE 7, 370)
Norseman Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1904 - 11 RRRR  
North Fremantle Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about1896 RRRR  
North Fremantle Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1896 RRRR  
North Perth Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO   RRRR  
Northam Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1899 RRRR  
Northam Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1940 RRRR  
Northampton Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1897 RRRR  
Nullagine Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 25 Mar 1899-1900 RRRR  
Nullagine Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO   RRRR 29 × 49 mm.
           
Onslow Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 24 Jan 1898 RRRR  
           
Paddington Post & Telegraph (Offi?) RO2 - P&T Nov 1896 to Nov 1911 (?) RRRR  
Peak Hill Post & Telegraph Off. RO2 - P&TO Dec. 1898-99 RRRR 27 × 41 mm
Peak Hill Post & Telegraph Off. RO2 - P&TO about 1912 RRRR  
Peak Hill Post & Telegraph Off. RO7 - P&TO in violet   RRRR 26 × 46 mm
Pendinnie Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T about 1896 RRRR  
Pilbarra Post & Telegraph Office 1904 RO6 - P&TO 1904 - 06 RRRR  
Pingelly Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1901 RRRR  
Pingelly Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1915 RRRR  
Pinjarra Telegraph Office RO7 - TO about 1914 RRRR  
P(or)t Hedland Telegraph Station (in violet) RO2 - TS 20 May 1899 -
2 Dec 1899		 RRRR  
(Port) Hedland Hedland - Telegraph Station (in violet) RO4 - TS about 1904 RRRR  
Port Hedland Post & Telegraph Station RO2 - P&TO about 1959 RR  
Princess Royal Post & Telegraph Station RO7 - P&TO about 1900 RRRR  
           
Quairading Post & Telegraph Office (in blue) RO4 - P&TO about 1912 RRRR  
           
Ravensthorpe Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1909 RRRR  
Reedy Post & Telegraph Office
(in red)		 RO6 - P&TO 1 Jan 1931 - 12 April 1940 RRRR ACE (7, 1363)
Reedy Post & Telegraph Office
(in violet)		 RO6 - P&TO 18 May 1940 RRRR  
Roebourne Post & Telegraph Office
(in violet)		 RO2 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR  
Roebourne Post & Telegraph Office
(in blue)		 RO7 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR  
Roebourne Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1910 RRRR  
Rottnest Telegraph Office RO2 - TO about 1916 RRRR  
           
Sandstone Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1919 RRRR  
Smith's Mill Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 1902-03 RRRR  
South Fremantle Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 22 July 1905 RRRR Ace (7, 375)
Southern Cross Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR  
Southern Cross Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 25 May 1904 RRRR Ace (7, 690)
Southern Cross Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1913 RRRR  
Subiaco Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1898-99 RRRR  
Subiaco Telegraph Office RO6 - TO about 1905 RRRR  
Subiaco Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO 28 January 1954 RRRR  
Tambourah Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 6 Sept. 1899 RRRR  
Tambourah Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 21 M??. (1899) RRRR in blue
Toodyay Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 9 Oct. 1918 RRRR  
Trafalgar Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1915 RRRR  
Turkey Creek Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1928 RRRR  
           
Victoria Park Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1901 RRRR  
Victoria Park Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1912 RRRR  
Victoria Park Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 29 Dec. 1899 RRRR Ace (7, 367)
Victoria Park Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1935 RRRR  
           
Wagin Telegraph Office
(lower case)		 RO6 - TO   RRRR 25 × 39 mm
Wagin Telegraph Office
(upper case)		 RO6 - TO   RRRR 39 × 45 mm
Waroona Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 1900 - 03 RRRR  
Warrawoona Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO   RRRR 27 × 41 mm
Waverley Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T about 1912 RRRR  
West Leederville Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO 1947 (only one recorded) RRRR 31 × 53 mm
West Northam Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO only seen as a sketch RRRR  
Widgemooltha Post & Telegraph RO2 -P&T   RRRR 29 × 45 mm
William(s) River Telegraph Office RO6 - TO Sept. 1900 and 1908 RRRR 26 × 43 mm
Williams Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T July 1935 RRRR  
Williams Post & Telegraph RO7 - P&T about 1978 RRRR 31 × 48 mm
Wiluna Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&T about 1912 RRRR  
Wittenoom Post & Telegraph Office RO2 -P&TO about 1976 RRR 30 × 49 mm
Wooramel Post & Telegraph Office   about 1909 RRRR  
Wyndham Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO about 1898 RRRR 27 × 42 mm
Wyndham Post & Telegraph Office
(in violet)		 RO2 - P&TO about 1946 RRRR 31 × 53 mm
Yalgoo Post & Telegraph Office RO4 - P&TO about 1915 RRRR  
Yarloop Post & Telegraph Office RO2 - P&TO 15 September 1902 to
28 December 1904.		 RRRR  
Yerilla Post & Telegraph RO6 - P&T 1897 RRRR  
York Telegraph Office RO6 - TO 25 May 1904 RRRR ACE (10, 1425)
York Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1904 RRRR  
York Post & Telegraph Office RO7 - P&TO about 1906 RRRR  
Youanmi Post & Telegraph Office RO6 - P&TO about 1941 RRRR