Mick Taylor might br interested in this one. At first I was thinking this looks like a toe tag. I have been digging thru an old box of stamps and often there are other documents like this tag. Normally I would melt it down in a hot tub to get the stamps off. This event took place in 1950 and Blood Specimens are being sent to Sydney for urgent analysis. I can tell you it was government mail by the stamps that have Perfins thru them spelling G NSW. Also it was sent by train from Orange due to the train stamp attached.
"Just get this down to the train station will you, it's due to pass through later today. And include the return envelope for the results. Maybe they will get it at the lab day after tomorrow, then allow two days for testing and results then another day to mail it back. Hopefully we will know if it is a deathly problem within a week, Mr Jones."
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| I will enter ths in the collection as is. |
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| 21½ pence to send. Now these four together are worth $2 |
nowadays I take the sample down to pathology and they get the result in one minute!
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