The Dandy Roll : Crown Over CA Wmk

Diagram showing arrangement of
Single CA watermark in a typical
4 pane sheet of 240 British Colonial stamps.

Note the watermarked inscriptions in margins.

Acknowledgement "Stamp Collecting" 1930
Stanley Phillips.

Hi! Rod

I need a little help!

The watermarks.
What era were they used in?
Pre KGVs!
Another country!

I see colonies in the margin so I have answered half of my own question!
I am very interested to know what era, What stamps to look for!
This is a watermarked sheet that I would start to collect as soon as!

Thanks for posting. I have been looking for something new to collect!

G'day John,
not sure I understand you, but the diagram shows
the design soldered onto the wire cage of the dandy roller.
When the wet sheet of stamp paper comes out of the mill,
it passes under the dandy roller, which impresses the watermark
as you see it there into the damp pulp.
The paper is guillotined and fed through the printing press
so that each stamp receives a watermark.

This paper was used for printing all the british small
format colony stamps, and is identified as "Watermark 6"
so if you looked for example at Antigua SG21 there will
be a wmk6 or Crown over CA watermark.

There is a watermark web link that notes all the stamps printed
on a certain type of watermark paper,
I'll see if I can locate it for you.

The inscriptions in the margins very rarely make it
onto the stamp excepting in rare cases where the paper size
was an emergency printing of a certain stamp that didn't match the dandy roll format.

Hope that makes sense, corrections welcomed.

John, if you go a few paragraphs down here,
there is an error found after 70 years on a
common as muck 2d red KG5
which should interest you

it is the common crown CofA and the C is back to front

http://www.glenstephens.com/snnovember05.html

John it looks like the "worlwide watermarks" link has closed,
it was from Stamp2.com and was fantastic
I cannot load it anymore, sorry.

Rod with KGV watermarks I have been collecting,
what I think is the makers name in the margins.

Yes they are only found in the off set printed sheets to the watermark.
I hold these stamps in very high regard.
It does take a lot of stamps to find the watermark margin wording
but very rewarding when you find one.
I reckon that printing errors to the alignment of the watermark
would of been at its peek with this watermark era shown!

It is a specialised approach to collecting and takes 10,000s of stamps
but it suits my way of collecting. Totally interesting.
Best to pick the most common stamp for cost.
The pressure put on the printer of the day to meet
the number of stamps needed adds to offset printing errors of this nature.

One of my KGV collections is to reconstruct the stamp sheets face up of
one and a half penny red, sm wmk, perf 13.5!
Have many multiple and tag them with long wave U.V reactions.
It is a lot of work but I really enjoy it! Fly specks are very important.
This is the only area of collecting I use hinges!

Hope I have been clear enough to understand. John

Sure John

Interesting to note "inverted watermark" is the biggest furphy
in stamp collecting!

There is no such thing, watermarks are <always> correct,
it is the printing that is inverted

Here's a great resource if you havn't seen it already
another KG5 man
http://allisastamps.com/kgv4dshades.htm