Australia KGV 1d Red - Suggestions For Shades Welcome!

With the 1st time I tried to put together penny red shade groups I made a big mistake. I was grouping some of the stamps into there, secondary dominate shade. For example the stamp looks pink but has a background that looks yellow. Do not group the background shades together. They spread over many shade groups.

Hi jimjamtwo
Any of the shade groups mentioned could have yellow backgrounds in them. KGV

The only way you can be sure of shades is by using proper shade colour swatch from Stanley Gibbons, any stamp shop will have one. They are not particularly expensive. Trying to do it without an independent base is impossible.

That's what I have used for the past 30 years and my 1d red collection is quite reasonable.

I will sort out a special chart that I have and find a way of letting you get to it.

tonykgv

Thanks for the info and kind offer, tonykgv!

As I only have two 1d reds (at least at this stage), the point I was trying to make is this: what do people do who don't plan to specialise in the KGV issues? Why would we want to buy the specialist literature, which is extremely expensive, but which, given the degree of specialisation that surrounds this issue, seems just about necessary to establish something as basic as the shades of the examples we own?

While I don't imagine that the Stanley Gibbons colour swatch is up to the job in this particular case - does it, for example, include such shades as pale terracotta and salmon eosine? - I'm sure that's it's a very worthwhile item for any collector to own and I'll certainly get hold of one down the track.

Have a look at http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=766 there is a colour chart there that will give you an indication of what you have. Probably carmine red, that is the most common.

Tonykgv