Malcolm Campbell is a retired construction industry commercial manager whose interest in scales, weights and measures was sparked by the find of a half pennyweight weight in the Amherst goldfields while metal detecting. From this find ensued a hobby of collecting gold scales and weights. He soon noticed stamps that were not verification stamps of the UK. These small stamps, 3–5 millimetres across, were of a Crown above a letter and a number and ‘VIC’. Eventually, finding out that they were from Victoria, the search began for the system of numbering and its meaning. Thank goodness for Public Record Office Victoria!
Author email: camwens@bigpond.net.au
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