Great postmarks for Canberra Stampshow 2012

I make no apologies for being one-eyed. If it involves a pictorial and/or commemorative postmark, my ears prick up and I can't wait to see it!

The Canberra Philatelic Society usually do a great job of designing postmarks to go with their souvenir covers whenever they hold their events, and 2012 is no exception. There's two special reasons to celebrate this year:

• The 100th Anniversary of Mawson's 1911-1912 AAT Expeditions and the first postmark is based on that very well known image of  Sir Douglas Mawson that has also been used on our $100 note.

• It is the 80th Anniversary of the Society which was first formed way back in 1932 when some of you were still babes in arms or in knickerbockers (they were still around in 1932, weren't they?).

The other two postmarks are just as spectacular and are self-explanatory.

Good on you Canberra PS! You've given us some excellent thematic postmarks to collect for 2012.

By the way, for those of you who want to turn up with your own covers for postmarking, please bear in mind that Australia Post will be there only between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. 

If, like me, you can't make it to the event, have a look at:

http://www.canberrastamps.org/Souvenirs.htm

which will give you the details of the souvenirs available (downloadable PDF etc.) and an address to write to. At least one item is sold out, and others are likely to go just as quickly.