Australia: Privately Manufactured Air Letter Card Form

This privately manufactured air letter card from was sent from SYDNEY (cds G.P.O. Sydney Air 4 SE 50) to Bloomingdale, US.

Australia only allowed privately manufactured airletter forms to be used that have a license (permit number) of the Postmaster-General. The licensed privately manufactured airletter forms could be used from July 17, 1950 on. Consequently, this air letter form should have been taxed as a short paid ordinary air mail letter.

The airletter is commercially used. The franking, though, is clearly philatelically inspired. The Kangaroo and KGVI definitives used were issued many years before the time of posting.