1942 5½d Emu - Two Flaws

Found today:

The first is described in ACSC as "Re-entry to top frame at left".





The second doesn`t appear in my aging copy of ACSC, so if anyone else is aware of it, details would be appreciated. Also, the markings within the scroll to the left of the final E in POSTAGE seem quite different from all my other copies. In other stamps, these curved lines extend to the left edge of scroll and usually fade out as they turn. Is this possible a retouch?

On closer examination, I suspect that that this is damage due to an imperfect perforation of the bottom left hole in the A of WA. There is also another partial perforation further up on the left of the A. The scroll question, however, still stands.

Could you put another emu alongside this one.

Yes, looks very nice to me. Thanks for posting ... I'll have to look through my examples a little more thoroughly now.

Frank,



Yes, you have two "Blind punctures", causing the oddity.

Query:



Your explanation seems to show "Top frame at right" ?

Am I misunderstanding you?

Rod, I thought it was me? After all, what is left for you is right for us here isn"t it?

Peter

Peter,
we are "downunder" so we are the valuable "Inverted" specimens......
Not sure about Left or Right.
I know we drive on the correct side of the road.

My water circulates clockwise down the plug...

Rod, just messing with you. I was like you - the first thing I thought was that the strange dots ( re-entry? ) were on the right, not on the left. I guess the " re-entry on the left " is not the one pictured.

Peter

Rob: Here is the side-by-side comparison you requested. The complete stamp is the one described in this topic. Beside it is a fragment from the stamp in my accumulation of 40 or so that has the best depiction of what is normal.

I have included whole stamps and and a close up of the area in question.




Frank.

Well, I see that I have given cause for people to vent their hilarity - and with good cause.

Unfortunately, I seem to be quite left/right challenged so, of course (and obviously, I think), I meant my other left, known to most people as right.

To make my problem worse, when I went to ACSC to get their wording for the variety, I saw "Re-entry to top frame at left" and that's what I put into the topic. Of course, I missed the line above that in ACSC which reads "Re-entry to top frame at right".

If anyone has suffered any harm, other than extreme fits of laughter or dislocation of the funny bone, then I sincerely apologise.

Frank.

All is cool Frank.
I didn't take it that way, I read that Peter was pulling my leg being an Aussie,
Nothing to do with your typo.
He does that from time to time, I take it in good humour / friendly banter.

Thanks, Rod. That's exactly how I read the situation, too. As I approach old age (I'll be 80 next year) I seem to be making more of this type of error, but I have learned that generally the users of this forum are a good natured lot.

Frank.

Checked all my copies.

The "E" in Postage differs occaisionally, put it down to ink distribution.
Same with the design in the Floral whorl.

Nothing in my lot sticks out as worthy of note.

Hi,I have some emu stamps and noticed one of them was different, the G in postage. Any info would be great. Thanks Matt.

Matt, no difference.
It is highly probable when flyspecking used stamps, with postmarks,
your eye will read something that is not there.

The postmark ink here is tricking your eye that the G is different.

Ha...yes you are right, thanks. Is this a flawed one maybe, near the breast?

Matt,
the only way I accept a flaw, is that it appears in a specialist catalogue somewhere (which I do not have for your stamp) or,
it appears on a mint stamp, and when it does, it needs to appear on more than 1 mint stamp, as it could be an EFO , error ,freak or oddity.

Scuffs, rips, postmarks, soaking, light, over inking, bad husbandry, are all out there to fool you with flyspecking used stamps.