Thursday Island

Thursday Island post office, 235 km north of Weipa, opened on 1 January 1878

• Registered handstamp on a Sideface - large type rated 2R
• R in oval registered handstamp (Ⓡ) on a Large Chalon rated 3R
• R in oval registered handstamp (Ⓡ) on a Sideface rated 2R
• Registered Label in red on a Commonwealth issue rated 3R
• Double lined oval registered handstamp rated 3R (3 October 1892 - 24 March 1907)
• Double lined oval registered handstamp in Blue rated 3R (9 February 1907)

Thursday Island numeral 51 HERE. Thursday Island numeral 148 HERE. Thursday Island numeral 336 HERE. Thursday Island date stamps HERE

Registered Handstamp on a 1st Sideface

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R . Seen on Ebay

Registered Handstamp on a 2nd Sideface

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R  

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R  

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R  

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Ex Butler 

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Seen at Abacus auction no 234

1892

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R and an R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface also rated 2R. Dated 7 March 1892. Seen on Ebay

R in oval registered handstamp on a Large Chalon 

1910

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Large Chalon rated 3R. Dated 16 March 1910. Seen at Spink Auction no 12043 lot no 1440. Ex Griffiths  

R in oval registered handstamp on a 3rd Sideface

1897

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 2 March 1897. Seen at Spink Auction no 12043 lot no 1437. Ex Griffiths 

1901

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 23 November 1901. Seen at Grosvenor auction no 55

1904

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 12 September 1904. Seen at Spink Auction no 15030 lot no 3755 

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 12 September 1904. Seen at Prestige Auction no 160

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 21 September 1904. Seen at Phoenix auction no 2181

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 1904. Seen on Ebay

1905

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 15 October 1905. Seen on Ebay

1907

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 28 May 1907. Seen in Smithies

Thursday Island R in oval registered handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 9 September 1907. Seen at Cavendish Auctions no 644 lot no 1043

Registered Label - Red

1911

Thursday Island Registered Label on a Sideface issue rated 3R. Dated 17 June 1911. Seen on Ebay

Thursday Island Registered Label on a New South Wales postage stamp rated 3R. Dated 17 October 1911. Seen at Abacus auction no 234

1913

Thursday Island Registered Label on a Sideface issue rated 3R. Dated 15 September 1913. Seen at Prestige Philately auction no 136

Thursday Island Registered Label on a Sideface issue rated 3R. Dated November 1913. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group

Double lined oval handstamp

1907

Thursday Island double lined oval handstamp on a registered letter receipt rated 3R. Dated 24 March 1907. Seen in James Turnbull, The Postal History and Postal Markings of Thursday Island, p. 22

Double lined oval handstamp in Blue

1907

Thursday Island double lined oval handstamp on a postage due rated 3R. Dated 9 February 1907. Seen in Prestige Philately auction no 183 lot no 137

Double oval registered stamp

1892

Thursday Island Registered Handstamp on a Sideface rated 2R. Dated 3 October 1892. There is also a portion of a double oval registered stamp rated 3R. Seen in the Queensland Stamp Collecting Facebook Group