Looking For Help With Malaysia B.m.a.

I am assisting an 'old' golf buddy to sort his stamps.! In the B.M.A. section there is six stamps I have identified as S.G. numbers 1B, 2B, 6B, 8A, 10D AND 25B.! (thin striated paper). Are these considered as scarce.? Thanks in advance.!

We'd love to see pictures so we know what we are talking about!

Peter

Maybe I don't know history but isn't Malaysia combined with BMA a contradiction? Perhaps robster means Malaya under British Military Administration (BMA)? I have looked in my SG catalogs and cannot find the relevant numbers but they might be a from a specialist reference.
Pictures would be nice.

My old Commonwealth catalogue refers to issues on thin, rough ordinary (cf. chalky) paper in a footnote, but doesn't give prices or subsidiary numbers for them.

Apologies, I will visit him today and take some pics, thanks for your patience.!

Apologies for the poor images.! I discovered an excerpt from a magazine on the next page of the album with a description of the aforementioned stamps.!

The thin striated paper varieties are listed in the 2015 Gibbons Part 1. The numbers and values are
1 cent: SG 1b £38
2 cent: SG 2b £19
6 cent: SG 6b £20
8 cent: SG 7a £20
10 cent: SG 8d £24
25 cent: SG 13b £25

All these values are also recorded on 'ordinary' as opposed to chalk-surfaced paper (at lowest prices), so I'd guess you'd need to be sure that these were indeed the 'thin striated' and not 'ordinary' papers.

Thanks tonymacg for the prompt reply, my 'golf buddy' is in his eighties and has lost the sight in one eye.! He asked for some assistance to transfer stamps from the old musty albums he has not viewed since the 'sixties'.! With my very limited knowledge it is a case of the 'blind leading the almost blind'. .
Bottom line is, we are having a bunch of fun sharing an interest. Thanks again.!

Ah... it helps having an up to date S.G. catalogue. My 2004 Commonwealth and Empire does not list the thin paper variety.

I'd like to suggest that your 1 cent and 10 cent stamps are from Die 1 and the rest are Die 2 as that may help identification or elimination. Perhaps tonymacg can assist with that.

Once you have seen the striated paper you will easily recognise them,

They have the appearance almost of thin horizontal laid paper,

Pagoda

Thanks for your assistance scotzm and pagoda.!

Scotzm said


Unfortunately, that doesn't get us any further. Gibbons' description of the thin striated paper (from p.xxvi) 'Another type of paper, known as 'thin striated'' was used ... Hitherto these have been described as "chalk-surfaced" since they gave some reaction to the silver test, but they are much thinner than usual chalk-surfaced papers, with the watermark showing clearly. Stamps on this paper show a slightly 'ribbed' effect when the stamp is held up to the light.'

These stamps do seem to be on extremely thin paper.! There were other pages marked as 'ordinary paper' and 'chalk surfaced'. I will follow your suggestions on my next visit.! Thanks again.!