Mike I don't think I ever replied to this informative email. Please forgive me - I've been inundated lately with work and my own research is keeping me flat out - thanks to a wonderful lady on this list - you know who don't you Kathy! I see you must have a great interest in this cancellation thing. Do you collect stamps too? Is your collection in a box and still in the box after 50 years? Just awaiting the day HE retires! I recall stamped envelopes, and not licking type stamp either. I always thought that they weren't any good for collectors. How little you know. Love the artwork. Keep practising, and many thanks. Particularly for the Wooragee one. I shall install it in the Post Office section of the history! Acknowledge you as "donor". Denise > > > Wooragee's Barred numeral (without a continuous line through the ends of the > horizontal lines): > > _____ > _________ > ___________ > > 778 > ___________ > _________ > ______ > > > (both not to scale) > > Mike S > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Denise McMahon" <helendmc@powerup.com.au> > To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:58 PM > Subject: Re: [AVNE] Mr. Maiden > > > > Mike. Would you mind explaining what your source is please - i.e. > > cancellations? > > Has this something to do with Post offices (or stamps -(g) > > > > Denise > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mike Skurrie" <mskurrie@bigpond.net.au> > > To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:47 PM > > Subject: Re: [AVNE] Mr. Maiden > > > > > > > Hi Lorraine, > > > > > > Silly little bit of trivia about James Maiden. > > > > > > Maiden's Punt was the name of one of the earliest Victorian Post > Offices, > > > opened on 1st March 1848, but uniquely, the post office was actually on > > the > > > New South Wales side of the Murray, near present day Moama, and was > named > > > after James Maiden, who operated a punt service across the river. On > > > 1.1.1855 it was transferred to the New South Wales Postal Department, > and > > a > > > new Victorian Post Office names Hopwood's Punt (lated renamed to Echuca) > > > opened on the Victorian side of the river. > > > (Source: Victoria: The "Butterfly" and "Barred Oval" Cancellations > > > 1850-1855. JRW Purves) > > > > > > Mike Skurrie > >