643 - Cape York / Fortitude Valley

Cape York post office, a telegraph station 220 km north east of Weipa, opened as a receiving office around 1897 and was elevated to a post office in about 1902

• Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm) is rated 3R

Cape York date stamp type 5b HERE

Re allocation:

Fortitude Valley post office, 1.5 km north east of the Brisbane general post office, re-opened on 20 August 1877 and this replacement canceller is known used in 1907

• Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm) is rated 5R

Fortitude Valley numeral 258 HERE. Fortitude Valley date stamps HERE. Fortitude valley registered HERE

Manning has this numeral as originally allocated to Fortitude Valley around 1907 and then re-allocated to Cape York around March 1910. Dated Cape York examples need to be seen by me in order to confirm this

Fortitude Valley / Cape York - 3rd Sideface

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm). Seen at Premier Postal auction no 118

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm). Seen in a private collection

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm)

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm). Seen at Premier Postal auction no 130 lot no 1891

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm). Seen on Ebay

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm)

Fortitude Valley / Cape York Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm). Seen in the collection of Tony Curtis

Fortitude Valley - 3rd Sideface

Fortitude Valley Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm) rated 5R. Tied to Fortitude Valley by the commercial perfin "TCB / & Co". T C Beirne & Co were milliners & drapers in Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group

1907

Fortitude Valley Sideface Barred Numeral type 2a (6.5 mm) rated 5R. Dated 10 September 1907. Seen in Manning, p. 218