AUSTRALIA — 1951 May 1: An 3 pence carmine postage stamp depicting portrait of Sir Henry Parkes. Founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, 50th Anniversary. Sir Henry Parkes, was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has been referred to as the "Father of Federation" due to his early promotion for the federation of the six colonies of Australia, as an early critic of British convict transportation and as a proponent for the expansion of the railways

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Australia is located in Oceania, south of Indonesia, washed by the Indian Ocean to the west, and the Pacific Ocean to the east. Now it is a self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth, the capital of which is Canberra. Australia includes the former British colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 2200px × 2500px
Location: Australia
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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