Australia One Penny Red Stamp

Hi members,

I found in my collection a Australia one penny stamp with a mark. Can it be a color mistake on the stamp. I appreciate your comments. Thank you.

Mara




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Hi Mara. It looks like your stamp was damaged either during cancellation or in the mails. It is hard to tell foe sure because your picture is a tad out of focus.
I guess I just woke up and saw what you are talking about. Looks like an area without ink just above the left "1". Could be caused by a number of things, from a defective plate to a piece of paper stuck to the plate.


Peter

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the information. I do not see any damage on the stamp. I think the red ink was missed. I can see with a magnifier little red spots on the white area. On the back Crown A watermark. Can this make this stamp valuable? Thank you. Mara

sorry Mara, but on your picture I see little white specks on the face of the king. Maybe it is from the photo? May I make a suggestion? When you start "flyspecking" it may be better to scan stamps rather than take pictures.
As far as the big white spot, it could be a known variety or just an oddity. And it could possibly enhance the value of the stamp. It is certainly worth keeping.
May I make another suggestion? Please make sure you are in the correct forum. You do much better if you ask this in the Australia forum. If you look at the right hand bottom of your post you will see "send note to staff" Ask staff to move this post to the Australia forum and they might have a better answer,

Peter

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The white specs appear to be some kind of shine substance; perhaps glue or some type of adhesive? If so, then there is a chance that some paper has been lifted or removed from the face of the stamp.

As Peter mentions, a scan would be a great help, giving a much better view of what is going on.

Don

This could be a 'tin shed' flaw.

Hi Mara

The king George V side face stamps are plagued with varieties.

And out of the vast amount of varieties, not many can be classified as scarce, very scarce, rare or very rare.

It is also not recommended to use a camera (especially from a cell phone, I believe that's what it is called in the US), you would need to use a scanner set at 600 dpi, the image would be much clearer and larger.

Who knows, you may have a scarce variety, but to clarify it, and I repeat, you would need to scan it at 600 dpi.

All varieties are collectable, and there are philatelists that just collect varieties.

Rob

Looks to me like a facial thin. The shiny residue appears as if a stamp with gum was stuck to it and when separating the stamps some of the KGV paper stuck to the gum of the other stamp. The shiny residue being gum from the other stamp.

Is there such a thing as a purple one cent King George stamp

Hi Lorihughes,

No 1 cent stamps but the following colonies had 1 penny KGV stamps in purple/violet:

Antigua
Australia
British Solomon Islands
Dominica (black vignette)
Fiji
Gilbert & Ellice Islands
Leeward Islands
Montserrat
St Kitts Nevis
Sierra Leone (x2)
Virgin Islands