1953 Issues
Produce Food!
Without Watermark
End Designer: G. Lissenden - Engraved: line process method - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
There were three stamps in this issue, with two different values & colours, 3 x 3d Green (Beef, Butter & Wheat) & 3 x 3½d Red (Beef, Butter & Wheat), they were made available in joined strips of three & blocks of nine in each colour, the first (Beef), shows a small herd of cattle; the second (Butter), shows some dairy cows about to be milked; the third (Wheat) shows a field being ploughed for cultivation.
Issued 11 February with perforation 14½ x 14¾
   
81-1-1 3d Green Beef;
82-1-1 3d Green Butter;
83-1-1 3d Green Wheat;
81-1-1_83-1-1 SS Se-tenant Strip of 3 Green   
81-2-1 3½d Red Beef;
82-2-1 3½d Red Butter;
83-2-1 3½d Red Wheat;
81-2-1_83-2-1 SS Se-tenant Strip of 3 Red
First Queen Elizabeth II Definitives
Part 1, Issue 1
Watermark 47 (C of A)
Designer: Frank D. Manley - Engraved: Frank D. Manley - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
This series was issued during 1953, 1954 & 1956, with Part 1, Issue 1, April 1953 (below); Part 1, Issue 2, June 1954; Part 2, Issue 1, during, 1953 (two listings below); Part 2, Issue 2, June 1954; Part 2, Issue 3, during, 1956, all stamps show a sideface view of Her Majesty the Queen, Queen Elizabeth II, this stamp the 3½d Red below was also issued in a 3/6d Booklet of 12 stamps.
Issued 21 April with perforation 14¾ x 14
85-1-1 3½d Red Queen Elizabeth
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Without Watermark
Designer: Frank D. Manley - Engraved: Frank D. Manley - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
There were three stamps in this issue, in three different values, with a bust of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the coronation crown, 3½d Red, 7½d Purple & 2/- Blue/Green.
Issued 25 May with perforation 14¾ x 14
  
84-1-1 3½d Red Queen Elizabeth;
84-2-1 7½d Purple Queen Elizabeth;
84-3-1 2/- Blue/Green Queen Elizabeth
First Queen Elizabeth II Definitives
Part 2, Issue 1
Without Watermark
Designer: Frank D. Manley - Engraved: Frank D. Manley - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
This series was issued during 1953, 1954 & 1956, with Part 1, Issue 1, April 1953 (two listings up); Part 1, Issue 2, June 1954; Part 2, Issue 1, during, 1953 (below); Part 2, Issue 2, June 1954; Part 2, Issue 3, during, 1956, all stamps show a sideface view of Her Majesty the Queen, Queen Elizabeth II. The stamps below are listed in value order.
Issued as below (in brackets), with perforation 14¾ x 14
 
85-3-1 1d Purple Queen Elizabeth (19 August);
85-5-1 3d Green Queen Elizabeth (17 June)
25th Anniversary of Australian Young Farmers' Clubs
Without Watermark
Designers: Post Office artists with adaptation by P.E. Morris - Engraved: E.R.M. Jones - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
The design shows two young Australian "Farmers" with a calf, this was Australia's first bi-coloured commemorative stamp.
Issued 3 September with perforation 14¾ x 14½
86-1-1 3½d bi-coloured young farmers
150th Anniversary of Settlement in Tasmania
Without Watermark
Designers: 3½d E.R.M. Jones; 2/- G. Lissenden - Engraved: 3½d Donald Cameron; 2/- G. Lissenden - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
There were three stamps in this issue, two 3½d, the first, Governor-General David Collins (1756-1810), he was the first Governor-General of Tasmania (1803-1810); the second Governor-General William Paterson (1755-1810) he was Governor-General of Port Dalrymple (1804-1809); the third a 2/- value, this design is based on a print held by the Mitchell Library, Sydney, the three master vessel depicted in the print was most probably the H.M.T. "Ocean", which was anchored at Port Sullivan for two months during 1804.
Issued 23 September with perforation 14¾ x 14
87-1-1 3½d Brown Lieutenant-Governor Collins;
88-1-1 3½d Brown Lieutenant-Governor Paterson;
87-1-1_88-1-1 SS Se-tenant Pair;
89-1-1 2/- Green Sullivan Cove, Tasmania 1804
Centenary of First Tasmanian Postage Stamp
Without Watermark
Designer: Richard L. Beck - Engraved: G. Lissenden - Printer: W.C.G. McCracken
This stamp bears the name "Van Dieman's Land" the name Tasmania was first known as, this is a reproduction of the first Tasmanian or Van Dieman's Land stamp issued in 1853.
Issued 11 November with perforation 14½ x 14¾
90-1-1 3d Red 1853 stamp reproduction
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