Australia Tasmania 1853 1d blue yellowish paper, SG2Australia Tasmania 1853 1d blue on soft yellowish paper, position 14 on the sheet, SG2. A fine used example with good to very large margins, crisply cancelled by "59" numeral of Launceston. A fine and attractive example with fresh colour. Tasmania, an island just off south eastern Australia, was one of the six British colonies that merged to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Van Diemen's Land was established in 1803 and was the second