My Australian Oddities

Thanks for the great examples, Rob.

Scott 166, ACSC 178f is described as "Vertical line outside left frame". There is more detail, as follows: "An unerased guide line extends the full depth of the plate, through sheets B and E, outside the left frame of the fourth vertical column. It is not found in the Ash printing."

My version has the vertical guide line, plus an additional very long scratch in the lower right corner. There are also miscellaneous small marks here and there.




I also found another example, which I believe is ACSC 178i, "Log Variety". I circled the area of interest. Can anyone confirm this, since the older ACSC I have does not clearly show this feature? Thanks.

Hi Partime

The roo with the line outside of the left frame and at bottom right, is quite interesting.

I acquired over 1,000 of the ½d roos for a continued research that started in 1952, I intend to finish it.

I believe that the acquisition I received has a sheet with those two varieties on it plus a few strips. It has information about that variety written in pencil on the page from 1952.

The third variety, the "long variety", I have not seen that one before, I'll have to look at the roo collection to see if I have one.

Will post a reply soon.

Rob

This one is a little different ... a sort of perfin oddity. The stamp is a normal Scott 25 (ACSC 88), but it has a perfin. From the back, I see an A and L, but it is angled and in a bad position. It is repeated at the top, though.


Although the punches appear to go down from the top, a side view of the incomplete punches shows that they are actually pushed through from the bottom. This is reasonable, of course, if the paper was folder over.

However, a scan of the back shows paper fragments in the incomplete punches.


And, a higher resolution close-up shows that the paper fragments are from the FRONT of a stamp.


Here is the close-up view of the front.


My highly educated, completely unscientific guess is that this is because the stamp was right beside the accompanying stamp that was folded over, and some fragments from that stamp stuck to the back of this stamp. Does this make sense? Any other theories?

I cannot recall, or have in my database, any perfin with 5 holes x 5 holes (maybe 6) in a right angle.

Should be easy to solve, if we had a Perfin Handbook.

KGV heads is not my forte, I'll have to see if I can find a book about KGV perfins.

Rob

I haven't posted to this thread in awhile, but I did pick up a few interesting ones, so here goes.

Scott 2d, ACSC 3, the one penny Roo with second die type. Appears to be a "white face" variety. I can't find it listed in ACSC.

This one may be a listed variety. Scott OB2h is the small OS variety of 2h. However, ACSC lists a "Retouch left of first A of Australia", which this one appears to have the same characteristics. Also, a small OS is usually priced at 2x the price of normal varieties, so quite a good find after all.

I have it as GR 11 second state. scarcity 8
("break in line 6 down from inner frame")




I am not au fait with that reference.
I have it as BL45 scarcity 5, "break in coast at Cape Leveque 4.5mm from left frame"

OK, Rod, I'll have to give you another challenge. The white face Roo appears to have missing ink, so I thought it was something different. Apparently just a Scarcity 5, BL45.

Here is Scott 122, ACSC 29. There appears to be a mark or die break in the bottom of the S of Australia. Can you find this one? (Not in my ACSC.)

Opinion:
9d Kangaroo. ID via Banwell / Parsons 2004
Harrison Plates
Die llB (sloping frame upper RHS)
break at junction RHS

Location Half-Pane 3R1-30
ID: 3R 17a & b
a=AUSTRALIA colour flaw on base of S, separating the serif from the rest of the letter
b= Shading below AUSTRALIA colour spot joining first and second lines under US

My comment : This colur dot is more pronounced in the cat. I have, perhaps your example is the beginning state.

No scarcity ratings offered by the authors.

Note: The kangaroo faces are catalogued somewhere? Brusden White perhaps, various names are given, but I do not recall "white face" albeit,
I have seen similar light printings on some of 1d reds.

Great info. I'll get that reference book sometime.

Partime.
9d Kangaroo
Sometimes offered on Amazon
$27 AUD from Michael Eastick...sometimes available at club auctions, or ebay cheaper.

Partime.
Are you able to advise the Watermark of the 9d please?

I have a colleague whom has 2 of the 3 Wmks, if yours is the 1 Wmk he is missing, he would like to make an offer.
Advise if willing to sell.
Rod

Thanks for the book picture. I'll find one at my price. The 9d is the C of A watermark. If they need it, please send me an email with the address.

Thank you, that's very a very generous spirit.
David may have read this by now, but I shall email him anyhow,
and let you know.

As you, he is a "Fly Speck" extraordinaire, he may have a duplicate of another variety for you etc.