AUSTRALIA — 1960 February 3: An 1 shilling 6 pence red on yellow postage stamp depicting Christmas bells. Actinotus helianthi, known as the flannel flower, is a common species of flowering plant native to the bushland around Sydney. It was named and first described by the French botanist Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen the first general flora of Australia

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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: 3200px × 3800px
Location: Australia
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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