Australia - Guinea - New Zealand

May 05, 1965 - One pound Jimmy is dead : One pound Jimmy the aboriginal is dead, The classical Aboriginal features of one pound Jimmy were made famous when they appeared on the Australian 2/6 and 8 1/2 stamps. Reports of the death of the old aboriginal were confirmed in Alice springs, by native welfare authorities. The few details not known but he has over 70. A Wilbert tribesman, he lived as his ancestors had lived for centuries, hunting his food as he wondered through the country in his Nomadio existence. He acquired the name of One pound because he always asked he had for sale. when his features first appeared on Australian stamps, mail from a lover the world poured into to him form philatelists. Many wanted his autograph on envelopes bearing his stamp. The only trouble was one pound jimmy could not read or write. However with the help of native welfare officers, Jimmy answered his fan mail - and signed his name with a thumb print. These signatures immediately became collectors items through cut the world. it meant nothing to jimmy. With a few white man luxuries packed into the saddles of his three old camels, he preferred to wander and hunt through the country which had born and bred him and provided for him into old ago without need of postage stamps. photo shows An Australian 2/64 stamp bearing the features of One pound Jimmy. who has died

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