Australian Stamp Information

Is that a souvenir sheet of watermark labels or cinderellas? I think the watermark on your 2p KGV is a wmk 9, or what is referred to on your sheet as 2nd Watermark. Your sheet shows three of them, but they are all the same.
The colour of your stamp is a little difficult to determine from your scan (or my monitor) but I think yours is either a 1920 SC#27 brown orange or #27a orange. I'll let you make that determination.

OK, sorry for not being clearer on my request.
The sheet of water marks is from rod222 on the thread "Australian K.G.V Stamps explained." The stamp is mine and it is orange and water mark # 9.
What I had a problem was which mark?
You say it is the second. I could not see the difference between the top row's second, third, or fourth one.
Thank you jamesw, my eyes are not as good as they once were.

That watermark table is extremely confusing it goes against all that I know about watermark. It is a heap easier than those images make out.

If anyone can explain that WMK table to me I would be very interested. KGV

I feel honored to be confused with you on them. But it is a great learning experience for me, except I have re-catalog these stamps so many times. I now feel the stamps and I are on a first name base. LOL

On the second row of the sheet of watermarks it says large _____ and small _____ What is the word after the words large and small. I just can't make them out, although I think they start with an "M"

On the 2nd line the 1st example says Large Multi (short for Large Multiple watermark), and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th say Small Multi (short for Small Multiple watermark).

But again, what is the difference between them, I could not make it out.



Ok,
Row 1

I can see 5 examples I also can tell the difference between only 3 of them, 1, 5 and the group (2,3,4)
what is the difference between row 1 #'s 2,3, & 4

Row 2

I can see 5 examples I also can tell the difference between only 3 of them, 1, 5 and the group (2,3,4)
what is the difference between row 2 #'s 2,3, & 4

Row 3

I can see 5 examples I also can tell the difference between none of them, what is the difference between them?

That is where my problem was. I felt if it was put to a chart there had to be a difference between them if ever so slight, or they should have made only 3 columns.

Now for Australia , Scott 2009 vol 1 page 575 shows 9 water marks. That is where I was having problems, different perforations and with or without water marks and which water mark was all different Scott's #'s.

As I said earlier I feel I am on a first name bases with my stamps now. Would you like to be called someone you are not. I am new at stamp collecting, about a year now and what a learning experience it has been. Stamps are not pieces of paper with pretty pictures and nasty tasting gum that goes on a letter. They have character, they tell a story of people and countries at a certain time. Maybe I am getting too deep in it but if I keep finding more to learn every time. And I am only in the A's I have the rest of the world to go. Here we go! And I will be asking for help along the way, even with charts I still get lost at times.

Can any one give me the Stanley Gibbon's and Michel's catalog numbers for these beauties.

Australia,

1) Scott # ASA 21a, KGV 1d (1 penny) {now I know why they call 1d nails Penny nails}

2) Scott # ASA 27a, KGV 2d (2 pence) orange

3) Scott # ASA 116, KGV 2d (2 pence) red

I have a little Aussie collection as well and can't seem to find any reference material (like the scott catalog) about them. There HAS to be a book or web page or something right? mine go from the early teens to 1960's. Any relevant info would be greatly appreciated for both of us.

(hope you don't mind me piggy-backing as we sort of got the same initial question.)

Well I_Love_Stamps,
I am just short of that magic number of 50 posts to be able to use email here. BUT, you can post a picture and I will help you any way I possibly can. I have the Scott 2009 catalog, the complete set I found it as a free down load, but I forgot where I got it though, sorry. If I find it again I will let you know. Till then I will try to find what I can for you.

Tom

I_Love_Stamps
Here are a few of the web sites I try to use to gather information on my Australian stamps.

Australiapostagestamps.com

Stanleylisica.com

Poppe-Stamps.com

Anbg.gov.au

Now proceed with caution, I use these sites but have had to use caution due to the people factor. People mean well but a typo can change things, as I know I am only using two fingers to type so I am slow. Just food for though. But I use these for what ever I can get from them to learn more.

Tom

Wow thank you for the links! I will scan some for you if you want, It'll be fun to see those again anyhow!

OK, here are the ones I can locate. I have about that many more someplace..lol I know there is a Norwegian & Papau New Guinea stamp there too that's totally unrelated. How they got there I don't know?

Great , I think I have 3 that you have, how did you get below 100kb with that page I am having trouble doing that?
I see what I can do

Ok got it here is the first and all I cataloged so far