Victoria 1d Watermark Quandary - Wa Watermark?

While examining this stamp I first thought I had the watermark upside down.

But when I actually put it in watermark fluid, it came up with a watermark that doesn't match what Scott or SG say should be ther.

The stamp:



Back of stamp:
Hopefully you can make out that it is Crown over A (WA watermark
Scott watermark 19, SG watermark 34.



Is there documentaiton of this stamp with this watermark?

Check the listing for D35 and see if it might fit your stamp. It is a 1905 issue with a Crown over A watermark.

Catalog blindnes strikes again.

Thanks Cjd.

SCF should organize a March for the Cure.

I can't help but think that SCF is the March for the Cure.

I love this thread.

As you can tell I am slowly sorting through some Victoria stamps. Here is the cousin to the one above, D37.

Front:



Back:



I can't find reference to this one with a upside-down watermark in my catalogs.

Try SG D14a

Not sure if this will help.

It's definitely crown over A watermark.



Also the color of the 4d stamp matches that of the 1d stamp in person, indicating the 1905-6 printing.

I agree it is D37. There is a note at the beginning of Australian States to the effect of, "the printers didn't care about watermarks, so we can't possibly know what they did and assign values, so unless the stamps were printed in London, we don't talk about watermark varieties."

I'm guessing they just never got the info in the first place and didn't work up separate listings? No doubt, some specialists know, and care, but Gibbons does not.

Thanks, that's what I suspected. I kept looking for something about this at the bottom of the listing for postage dues not realizing there was a more general explanation.