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Australia - 5 Shilling Thin Paper

 
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Posted 04/17/2011   8:45 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add smauggie to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
So how thin is the thin paper supposed to be? It certainly seems thin. And it is 0.003 inches in thickness (yes, I measured).

Any thoughts?



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Posted 04/17/2011   9:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jhlovell to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
smauggie sorry to ask a question on top of your question, but where did you get your thickness measurer? and about how much. - Jeff
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Posted 04/17/2011   10:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Jeff, smauggie hasn't jumped back in yet, so here is the one I use (more or less...mine is ten years old, so it has changed a bit in the intervening years):



They've dropped in price to around $100-125. If you search "Mitutoyo" on Google or Amazon, you'll find all kinds of digital solutions.
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Posted 04/17/2011   11:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
A Micrometer. An analog version of cjd's digital one (where you have to do math to figure out the measurement instead of just reading it off an LCD screen).

Mine looks quite similar to this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M...rts_0001.png

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Oh, and as for where I got it, I stole it years ago from my father, an engineer.
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Posted 04/18/2011   12:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add ZhangCheng to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
smauggie, the watermark of thin paper is much clear than the thick paper.
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Posted 04/18/2011   03:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Gibbons also notes that the thin paper version is on 'white Harrison paper instead of the toned paper used for' the thick paper version. Should be obvious placed alongside a thick paper 5/- Arms.
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Posted 04/18/2011   04:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jubilee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
You'll need to convert to millimetres.

The Australian Commonwealth Specialists Catalogue states the following:

"The paper measures approximately 0.096mm, compared with the normal thickness of 0.109mm"

My ACSC is ancient (1995), but a used thin paper had a CV of $20 then, against a thick paper CV of 0.50c
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Posted 04/18/2011   04:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Gibbons (2011) rates the thin paper at £50 used, against 20p for the thick paper.
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Posted 04/18/2011   06:20 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well, 0.003 inches translates directly to 0.0762 mm. So I think I am safe in saying it is thin paper. Since Scott catalogs do not even recognize that there is a thin paper version of this stamp, my SG Australia catalog has already "paid" for itself.
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Posted 04/18/2011   10:04 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jhlovell to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thank you all, I got it. - jeff
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