Tasmania, 1870 (ten pence)
A queen in profile in an oval of beads, printed in black.
Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
TASMANIA across the top.
- 1TASMANIA
- 2TEN PENCE
- Inscription
- TASMANIA · TEN PENCE
- Meaning
- The colony’s name at the top and the value in words at the bottom.
- Issued by
- Tasmania (British colony)
- Today
- Australia (the state of Tasmania) Flag of Australia
- Year
- 1870. Issued about 1870.
- Made by
- De La Rue (plate-making company); Colonial postal printing operation, Hobart (printing organization)
One fact
Tasmania had its own stamps until the Commonwealth of Australia took over the post; the plates for this black tenpence came from De La Rue in London.
Source and public-domain rule
Australia, Crown copyright, more than 50 years. A government (Crown) stamp of 1870: Crown copyright in Australia lasts 50 years, so it ended long ago. Copyright in a work made or first published by or under the direction or control of the Commonwealth or a State (the Crown), such as a government postage stamp, lasts 50 years (Copyright Act 1968, ss. 176, 177 and 180). The colonial issues of Tasmania and New South Wales are older still. Applies to issuers au, ts and nw, published before 1976. Legal sources: Copyright Act 1968 (Australia), compilation of 2 April 2026, ss. 176–180.
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