VPRS 15562 Display Board of Postage and Revenue Stamps

This series consists of a display board which contains a number of different postage and revenue stamps (mostly relating to Stamp Duty) for the Colony of Victoria. The display also includes 2 Victorian postal notes and 2 stamped post cards. The Display Board was produced by the Victorian Government Printing Office for display at the Greater Britain Exhibition held at Earl's Court, London from May 1899. The Board was put together following a suggestion to the Government Printer by the Commissioner of Public Works that "....some exhibits of Litho[graphic] and Letter Press Printing, also Photo Engraving, and that the Deputy Postmaster General has particularly requested that an exhibit of Post Office Stamps should be sent " to the exhibition. (Refer to VPRS 1207/P0, unit 1714, file 99/232.) The Display contains the headings "Victoria Postage & Revenue Stamps Victoria Australia Presents Issues [and] Obsolete Issues Reprints" and, at the bottom of the display the following wording: "The stamps, post cards, postal notes, etc are printed, gummed and perforated as the case may be at the Government Printing Office, where also the dies & plates are electrotyped. The original steel punches & plates being engraved in the colony. Jas W Wilby, Designer 1899". The glassed display area measures approximately 0.45 x 1.65 m and with the substantial wooden case, approx 1.5 x 2.17 m.本系列展品为一块展示板，其上陈列有多种维多利亚殖民地时期的邮资与税票（多数与印花税票相关）。该展示板同时包含2张维多利亚邮政汇票与2张邮资明信片。此展示板由维多利亚政府印刷局制作，用于参加1899年5月于伦敦伯爵宫举办的大不列颠博览会。该展示板的筹备源于公共工程专员向政府印刷局提出的建议："……需展出石印（Lithographic）、凸版印刷及照相雕刻相关展品，同时副邮政总长特别要求提交邮政邮票展品"参展。（详见档案VPRS 1207/P0，第1714单元，案卷99/232。）展示板的标题为"澳大利亚维多利亚州邮政与税票：发行票品及废弃票品重印本"，展示板底部标注文字如下："本展品中的邮票、明信片、邮政汇票等均由本局完成印制、刷胶及按需打孔作业，印模与印版亦在此处进行电铸加工。原始钢模与印版均在本殖民地内雕刻完成。詹姆斯·W·威尔比，设计师，1899年"。带玻璃罩的展示区域尺寸约为0.45×1.65米，搭配厚重木质外框后整体尺寸约为1.5×2.17米。