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175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUM REBELLION

 

Pre-stamped envelope - No. 060

Issued: 26 January 1983
Size: (191mm x 102mm)
Face Value: 27c
Envelope Design: Australia Post Graphic Design
Paper: 105gsm Glacier White offset.
Printer: Mercury-Walch, Division of Davis Brothers.
Printing process: Photolithography with luminescence impregnated varnish on a six - colour Roland Ultra press.
Removed from Sale: 31 August 1983



The image on the left is a section from a painting, Major Johnston announcing the arrest of Governor Bligh by Raymond Lindsay. The painting hangs in the Geelong Town Hall, in 1928 Dame Nellie Melba presented it to the Geelong Art Gallery.

Governor William Bligh
Governor William Bligh's Portrait is from an engraving by J. Conde. Which is held in the Nan Kivell collection at the National Library of Australia

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