Help – I’m trying to establish the earliest use of a Wesley cover, with or without WCS logo, in Papua New Guinea.
The 1958 – 60 issue ie.SG.18 – 24, issued 2.6.58 seems to be it. However I have a Wesley Covers not showing the logo, with an earlier issued stamp SG.16, but with a later postmark ie.13th.Dec 1959.
Wesley cover are known to have be…[Read more]

Further to Alan Grey’s excellent article on the Sir Robert Bear covers – PNG Calling, July – pp4/5 – here’s some additional information I came across (quite by accident – amazing what you find when tidying up a cupboard!). Hopefully the attached scans from the ‘NSW Philatelist’ of May 1995 are accessible. There is more information on that cover…[Read more]

Here’s an interesting item from the Aug 7 1917 issue of The Australian Philatelist.

There is an item (supplied by a G. Turnbull) that the legal name of Port Moresby was still Granville. He writes:

“There were two townships, Granville East and Granville West. The term ‘Port Moresby’ only applies to the harbour.”

I have no idea when Port More…[Read more]