Australia : Kg5 Sideface : Sg32 Spectrum.

I have these as {Left to right, top to bottom)

orange
orange
orange
yellow orange
lemon-yellow
dull orange

Anyone disagree? John? (KG5)

I don't know about the colours Rod, but there was/is actually
a place called HOME RULE down there ?

I am upstairs and don't have my books of course which are downstairs and I am headed to catch 40 winks, but if I can say what I see, with my wonderful eyes for color (but orange should not be part of the colorblind) the only difference I see it eht third one that I would have named orange-yellow then your yellow orange. Seems to be just a shade difference in the third from the second, but scans can do that too. Just thinking out loud. - Jeff (love the lemon yellow)

Well,
not only that Litho, I think it is only
2 miles from where SCF member "Jubilee" lives..Gulgong




A real Aussie place if you ask me,
near Magpie lane, and Frog Rock
and Henry Lawson Drive (phew)

and a famous song goes something like...

"I'll linger Longer, in Yarrawonga"

see yarrawonga on the map.

Home rule suggests Republicanism, so should be wiped off the map

Long live Her Majesty the Queen!

Yes Rod! With that collection it makes shades stand out.
The 4d orange's were the easiest of
the shades to put together for me.

The yellow's look spot on.
The oranges are harder.
The Buff's look more of a brown shade.
Real deep true orange is aniline.
And orange, is very orange, a stand out.

Easy to be wrong but it is great to have a go. John

Er, Rod, mate, pal, buddy, chum.......

I collect Gulgong and Home Rule postmarks. If you're interested in selling, please let me know!

I've moved now, but still hunt the darn things down.....

Sorry Jubilee,
you are not going to like this.

I bought that at auction, and took a punt
that it was a scarce pmk.
Someone else had the same idea
We bid that stamp up from $5 to $23

If you want to pay $23 for it, then OK,
but I went in blind on a hunch, and I think
it backfired, but I wasn't going to die wondering.

It is popular however, I never found out the
going price, I don't have a NSW pmk compendium,
but there was a guy on stampboards seeking homerule postmarks.



Didn't know you had moved ?

OK John,
I presume you agree?
I'll mount them as such, and when others come along
I can use them to find the buff. Buff?
where did you get that colour?
That's not a Stanley Gibbons nomenclature.
Is that an ACSC colour?

Yes I think you have it right Rod.

Most of my KGV catalogues are the fly spec's books.
Only missing 3 books that I know of at present.

The ACSC is the only KGV catalogue I use for day to day stuff.
Yes Buff is a ACSC shade description.

Nice bunch of stamps Rod.
It is great to hear that your new place
to live is opening up for you in very special ways.
Those salt lakes do stink because of no oxygen.
Rotten is it not. lol John

Rod, that was me on SB, with a different username. I live in the Blue Mountains now.

$23 is too hot for me I'm afraid

Is that all the basic shades of that stamp - minus the "buff"?
I think your pic, Rod, shows how meaningful discussions on colour shades can be had despite monitor/scanner differences. When you have a few examples together, then you are looking for differences between stamps. That seems much easier than trying to ID a colour in isolation.
I will keep an eye out for Gulong whoops, Gulgong, pm's...

Stampgal:
There are 8 shades of orange,
I do not have enough examples to form a rainbow yet.
This is how I do it :
I collect the basic sideface stamp according
to the basic structure listed in Gibbons

Value
perf
wmk

I place them all in hagners until I have enough to start
to discriminate.
Then one can go to ACSC to finesse the more difficult shades

Here is the ACSC page on the four penny (part thereof)
Having multiples allows one to ignore obvious damaged stamps
light damaged soaking etc.

So your comments are quite on the mark for these difficult customers.

The way I have proven my shades is by collecting stamps with dates that match the date that the shades were printed in, the more dates that match that shade the more confident I am of calling a stamp a certain shade.

A totally interesting way of collecting stamps, by dates for shades. But it does take a lot of stamps to do it. I always keep an eye out for KGV date stamp lots. Only see 2or3 per year.

Rod, I think you can rest relatively easy over Home Rule. It was probably named by some wild Fenian prospector, hankering for greater self-determination for Poor Old Ireland.

Yes, that's how I am "proving my colours" John.

Tony:
That sounds intelligent,
wish I had thought of that

It's true! The place was settled by disgruntled, and ever-hopeful, Irish settlers. The PO was closed in 1966 (from poor memory), and the town has disappeared.