Barney Marshall's
Patriotic Stationery
By
Dale Ansell & Dave Elsmore
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Who was Barney
Marshall?
Eric (Barney) Marshall was a Draftsman & Artist
from Toowoomba Queensland.
After his time in the Navy in WWII he produced a
series of patriotic envelopes
(Section One) that have been sent all over the world.
He began producing "NETA" personalised souvenir
stationery from his shop in Brisbane (Section Two).
This work is from a series of online catalogues to help the collector and dealer alike.
This FREE online catalogue is courtesy of ozrevenues.com
This is a Catalogue only.
Nothing is for sale
from these pages. It is purely to help guide you to
better collecting.
This is the largest
collection of covers recorded.
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Records of the different envelopes and quantities
have not been recorded.
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Barney in
Convoy
Barney
Marshall
Barney Minesweeper
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-Section One-
Below is a selection
of Barney Marshall Patriotic Stationery Envelopes.
BM1
Design recorded on left or right of envelope
-A Souvenir Sunny Queensland-
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BM2
-Design recorded on left or right of envelope-
-U.S.Army Air Corps 5th Air Force-
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BM3
-A Souvenir from Sisters and Nurses of the Hospitals of Australia-
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BM4
-Greetings from the Royal Navy in Australia-
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BM5
-W.A.A.A.F. Women's Australian-Aux. Air Force-
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BM6
Small and large design recorded on left or right of envelope (see BM.16)
-Per Adua Ad Astra-
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BM7
-British Campaign Great War 1914-
-World War II 1939-
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BM8
-British Campaign Great War 1914-
-World War II 1939-
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BM9
-AWAS Australian Women's Army Services-
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BM10
Design recorded on left or right of envelope
-RAN Royal Australian Navy-
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BM11
-A Souvenir of The City of Brisbane-
BM12
-A Souvenir from the United Stated Forces in Australia-
Reverse
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BM13
-A Souvenir from the Merchant Navy with best wishes-
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BM14
Design recorded on left or right of envelope
-Greetings & Best Wishes from The Royal Australian Navy-
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BM15
Design recorded on left or right of envelope
-The Fighting Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Navy Army & Air Force-
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BM16
Small and large design recorded on left or right of envelope (see BM.6)
-Per Adua Ad Astra. Royal Australian Air force-
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BM17
-U.S. Army-
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BM18
-Design recorded on left or right of envelope-
Reverse
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BM19
Australia
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BM20
-Souvenir from Brisbane-
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BM21
-A Souvenir from Sunny Queensland-
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BM22
-Later Barney went on to produce unsigned First Day
Cover envelopes using some of his earlier designs-
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Design from left side of envelope
Design from right side of envelope
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Design printed on left or right side
of envelope
Prefix A
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Recorded on
mint envelopes
Full envelope
Lower right of an envelope
Prefix B
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AIRMAIL
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Matching Stationery
Writing Pads (inc. Airmail) Recorded - Several sizes
all around A5.
All envelopes match
writing pads, survival is scant
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Best Wishes card
folded into four
Signed
"Your Loving Husband Barney"
Remembering Australia
- A souvenir from the United States
Forces in Australia
& Cobbers Australia
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-Personalised-
Many hand drawn
coloured covers exist.
Sent to family and friends, spanning over 40 years
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Section Two
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Barney
Marshall was also responsible for a line in
Personalised Stationery
-Envelopes were printed to order
with the initial of your choice, along with
writing pads to match-
Front
cover of Stationery Writing Pad. Note Barney's
signature lower right.
BM30
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Other
One other that Barney printed
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Last but not least
Barney was also commissioned by the A.B.C. as an
artist to design and
draw posters for up coming shows. A sample of which
is shown here.
A sample of
Barney's work
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I would welcome any
comments to improve the pages
Bibliography:
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For more in depth information please contact: Dave Elsmore
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