The Stamps Of Australia : On Steiner Pages.

Sc#117
My Typical Stock Page.
3d KG5 Sideface. (Die ll)
Exists :
Blue
Pale Blue
Dull Blue
Deep blue
Intense Deep Blue. $400

Inverted Wmk : $40,000

The Penny Red KG5 Sideface, for beginners like myself.

(Ever noticed His majesty's ear, looks like a Boomerang?)



N W Pacific Islands Opt on KG5 Sideface.

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New South Wales
Revenues : Stamp Duty
1950

Treat this display with suspicion, Watermarks are difficult to read, exist in part, and oftentimes missing.
These are often "guessed" by me, in their location.

Exist in manuscript cancel, PERFINS, commercial overprints.

Rod - I am impressed with all the varieties of areas and stuff you have in your albums - where do you get it all from? Seems like you have a good and well organised presentation of more or less everything, from standard stamps to specialty studies, postmarks, covers etc.

Please keep sharing - it really is inspiring
I might need another 30 years or so to get anywhere close to your level, so the continuous inspiration is appreciated
Jon

Hi Jon, Rene.
Thank you.

Pretty simple really, when I began collecting, I had been clobbered by the
financial crash in Australia in 1987, I was poor, and to feed my new hobby, I was buying junk lots. Suitcases of stamps and ephemera no one else seemed to want.
I squirreled it away, and now, due to the wizardry of the internet, we have so much information, the ability to print pages and show it to the wider audience.

It still has very little value, it's just not mainstream.

It's nice to know it can inspire others to collect all sorts of weird stuff, that is cheap to source, and have fun doing it.

Jon,
did you see my reply re Lithuania? did you want my duplicates?
Cheers

Rod - I missed your reply on Lithuania - thanks for the reminder -I've replied on that subject at the Lithuania thread.

I like the story of how you built your collection. They say time is money. I guess at some point you you had more time than money - and now all that time spent on 'junk' seems to me to have paid off very well, at least what you are presenting to other collectors have value to us, simply only looking at it.

I need to start buying more of that 'junk' myself

Jon,
buying "junk" is over for me, the cat is out of the bag,
I have seen my "suitcase" lots, go skywards, selling for $300-$400 these days.

The internet has given rise to ID and interest to all sorts of collecting disciplines.

I just checked my local dealer in Western Australia
and there may be some occaisonal good deals

http://www.acestampauctions.com/lot...on=9&page=11

Western Australia
Postmarks and Slogans.

Western Australia
Revenues
1930 Hospital Fund.



A singleton from the 1940 Issue.
CV $10

10 Values 1½d to £1

State Official Punctures~revisited.

Makes one wonder where these were punctured?
Was there a secretary, somewhere in a back office, with a perforator
punching out the odd sheets of QE2?
Where are those machines now, I wonder.
Or were these punctured within the Printing house?

I'll have to go back and revisit the posts on Vic State punctures....




4½d KG5 Registered Lettersheet Envelope.
ebay image.

Hi Rod.
This block is from the 3rd head in use from 1953 to 1972.

1: To prevent theft and improve accounting within government departments.
2: Basically government departments would send their postage requirements and the various stamp denominations would be perforated and sent back to them.
3:I now own the Machine and is in a secure location.
It was first thought the machines where replaced but evidence now points to the perforating heads within the machine where replaced.(1 machine 4 Head types)
4: Yes the Perforator was located at the Victorian Government Printers Office

Fabulous, thanks BB.

Are you able to explain how the heads were fixed?
Being an engineer, I am aware of how fine a tolerance would be required, between the Punch and Die.
How they managed to have an interchangeable head intrigues me.
(I am assuming a hand perforator)

I've added your explanation to my album page.

Sc#471 1970
Repaired flaw, damage to print roller.

Not my work, fragment from a previous Philatelist, amongst a lot donated from an SCF member.

Australian Commonwealth Specialists Catalogue

Standard guage, rail link, Sydney to Perth, Western Australia.

Retouch over engine cowling.
Right pane, Row 10, Stamp number 5.

The constant varieties Rod222 described in an earlier post also appear in the 1d green. Some of these flaws were corrected, but some were visible over the entire life of the KGV Sidefaces, from 1914 to the 1937 introduction of the KGVI definitives.

The following are images of about half of these varieties, ties to the numbers given in Rod222's earlier post.

6. Dot before 1 in the right value tablet.
8. Flaw (short line) just under the point at the bottom of the right value tablet.



9. "Ferns" due to damage to the shading lines between "ONE PENNY" and the right value tablet.
10. "NY" in "ONE PENNY" joined.



11. "Secret Mark", a nick in the lower frame just below the "N" in "ONE".
12. "Run N", a white flaw just below the "N" in "ONE".



13. Die 2 flaw, showing spur in left value tablet. This flaw appeared on 20 stamps on Pane II. The flaw differs in size and angle from stamp to stamp.
16. Scratch behind the kangaroo's head and shoulder. This quite difficult to see in this example.



17. Nick in left frame.
18. "Weeping Pearl". This example shows the retouch intended to correct this flaw. The gap in the white line running just below the pearls in the left of the crown is much smaller than normal. (Compare it to the Variety 17 example.)



19. "RA" in "AUSTRALIA" joined.
20. Nick in top left corner.



22. White flaw in right frame, just to the right of the emu's foot.
Die 3. And for good measure, I have included an image of the the Die 3 impression, from printings made in 1917. This is identified by thin white lines running vertically across the ends of the shading lines to the right and left of "ONE PENNY".



It is also worth noting, that the 24 flaws indicated in Rod222's post do not include the many minor varieties. This, coupled with colour varieties makes the collection of the KGV Sidefaces challenging, but very satisfying.