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Get Cover Featuring First US-Australia Joint Issue
In 1988, the US joined Australia in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first European settlement in Australia with a joint issue stamp. This cover features both the US and Australia stamps. The US stamp is cancelled with the First Day of Issue postmark.
About the Joint Issue
The Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee commissioned three US artists to produce a variety of whimsical sketches for this joint issue. They were told to use eagles and Uncle Sam to represent America plus other creatures to represent Australia. In the end, the USPS decided to go with the design submitted by Australian artist Roland Harvey, which was used on both stamps. His design pictures cartoon figures of a koala and American bald eagle, symbolizing the long cooperation and friendship between the US and Australia. The koala holds a bush hat and wears a striped green and gold football shirt (the nation’s official colors). The eagle wears a stars and stripes vest while waving a top hat. Both stamps are square, but the Australia stamp is a little larger and the type is different.
History the stamp represents:
Willem Janszoon of the Dutch East India Company is credited as the first documented European to land on Australia in 1606. Also in 1606, Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós landed on New Hebrides and named the area Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (Southern Land of the Holy Spirit), in honor of Queen Margaret of Austria. In 1644, Abel Tasman named the area New Holland. Dutch explorers made several trips to Australia and made some of the earliest complete maps of its coasts.
In 1688, William Dampier was the first British explorer to visit Australia and wrote extensively about the aboriginal people. James Cook landed at Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed possession of the east coast. There had been proposals to colonize Australia as early as 1717. Between 1718 and 1775, the British sent about 50,000 convicts to the New World. After the American Revolution, they lost most of their North American colonies and sought a new place to send their prisoners. As a temporary measure, they created floating prisons, but they quickly reached capacity. In 1779 and 1783, proposals were submitted to establish penal colonies in New South Wales. They would establish a self-sufficient penal colony that relied on subsistence agriculture. Trade and shipping would be banned, so the convicts would be isolated and not interfere with the British East India Company.
The plan was approved, and the first settlers arrived at the colony of New South Wales in January 1788. They initially went to Botany Bay, but then moved to Port Jackson, where the first settlement at Sydney Cove was established on January 26, 1788. This date is celebrated as Australia’s national day, Australia Day. More than 1,000 settlers were part of that first wave, which included 778 convicts, of which 192 were women and 586 were men. Ages ranged from 9 to 82, with sentences of seven to 14 years.
The new colony struggled in its early years. Agricultural efforts were largely unsuccessful, and supplies from Britain were scarce. Thousands more settlers arrived in the coming years, but many were sick and incapable of the hard labor required to run the colony. Over time, the colony’s free population grew, made up of emancipated convicts, children born there, soldiers whose service had ended, and even free settlers directly from Britain. By the time the last convict ship arrived in 1868, some 162,000 men and women had been relocated to Australia.
Throughout the 1800s, the British established further colonies on the continent. Settlers entered into frequent conflicts with the aboriginals, greatly decreasing their population. With booms brought on by gold rushes and improved agriculture, the colonies prospered and began creating their own parliamentary democracies. On January 1, 1901, the colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia.
Now you can add this Cover honoring the long friendship between these two nations. Order yours today.
Get Cover Featuring First US-Australia Joint Issue
In 1988, the US joined Australia in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first European settlement in Australia with a joint issue stamp. This cover features both the US and Australia stamps. The US stamp is cancelled with the First Day of Issue postmark.
About the Joint Issue
The Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee commissioned three US artists to produce a variety of whimsical sketches for this joint issue. They were told to use eagles and Uncle Sam to represent America plus other creatures to represent Australia. In the end, the USPS decided to go with the design submitted by Australian artist Roland Harvey, which was used on both stamps. His design pictures cartoon figures of a koala and American bald eagle, symbolizing the long cooperation and friendship between the US and Australia. The koala holds a bush hat and wears a striped green and gold football shirt (the nation’s official colors). The eagle wears a stars and stripes vest while waving a top hat. Both stamps are square, but the Australia stamp is a little larger and the type is different.
History the stamp represents:
Willem Janszoon of the Dutch East India Company is credited as the first documented European to land on Australia in 1606. Also in 1606, Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós landed on New Hebrides and named the area Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (Southern Land of the Holy Spirit), in honor of Queen Margaret of Austria. In 1644, Abel Tasman named the area New Holland. Dutch explorers made several trips to Australia and made some of the earliest complete maps of its coasts.
In 1688, William Dampier was the first British explorer to visit Australia and wrote extensively about the aboriginal people. James Cook landed at Botany Bay in 1770 and claimed possession of the east coast. There had been proposals to colonize Australia as early as 1717. Between 1718 and 1775, the British sent about 50,000 convicts to the New World. After the American Revolution, they lost most of their North American colonies and sought a new place to send their prisoners. As a temporary measure, they created floating prisons, but they quickly reached capacity. In 1779 and 1783, proposals were submitted to establish penal colonies in New South Wales. They would establish a self-sufficient penal colony that relied on subsistence agriculture. Trade and shipping would be banned, so the convicts would be isolated and not interfere with the British East India Company.
The plan was approved, and the first settlers arrived at the colony of New South Wales in January 1788. They initially went to Botany Bay, but then moved to Port Jackson, where the first settlement at Sydney Cove was established on January 26, 1788. This date is celebrated as Australia’s national day, Australia Day. More than 1,000 settlers were part of that first wave, which included 778 convicts, of which 192 were women and 586 were men. Ages ranged from 9 to 82, with sentences of seven to 14 years.
The new colony struggled in its early years. Agricultural efforts were largely unsuccessful, and supplies from Britain were scarce. Thousands more settlers arrived in the coming years, but many were sick and incapable of the hard labor required to run the colony. Over time, the colony’s free population grew, made up of emancipated convicts, children born there, soldiers whose service had ended, and even free settlers directly from Britain. By the time the last convict ship arrived in 1868, some 162,000 men and women had been relocated to Australia.
Throughout the 1800s, the British established further colonies on the continent. Settlers entered into frequent conflicts with the aboriginals, greatly decreasing their population. With booms brought on by gold rushes and improved agriculture, the colonies prospered and began creating their own parliamentary democracies. On January 1, 1901, the colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia.
Now you can add this Cover honoring the long friendship between these two nations. Order yours today.
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