Queensland Scott 123A, Perf And Serrated

This is a very interesting item. It is not valued very high, so there must be many examples out there. Scott even details a serration color.

You should be able to see that it is perforated on all 4 sides, and is showing an additional serration on three sides. The books don't really explain why this was done, but it is an interesting piece, nonetheless.



Question: Does it appear regummed? There looks to be some bleed through on the left side, but some perf tips look good.

Once again, nice article, Partime.
Not seen this piece prior.
You have some lovely material.

No idea on regumming.

The note on the serration method from Lowe's Australasia (1962 p.119) says:

"This was an attempt to provide a means of separating the stamps of a complete sheet in one operation....In an endeavour to ensure correct registration of the rouletting rules, between the stamps, the cutting edges were inked to serve as guide lines but not set low enough to pierce.....When satisfactory adjustments had been made preliminary inking was dispensed with......It was also found impossible to operate on gummed sheets and subsequent gumming closed up the serrations."

I don't think the stamp has been regummed.

Hope this info helps

Understatement.
Fabulous information, thanks for the background, ... a keeper.

Thanks for the followup information. I found it at a show, in an "odd-ball" box for a reasonable price. I just like the novelty of it. A keeper for sure. (I just wish it was the black serration color ...)

That is really bizarre.
I imagine that a lot of those stamps got damaged when people separated them by tearing apart (normally). I presume that sometimes it would tear along the perforations and at others, along the rouletting. It seems like they made a royal mess with this.

Apparently not. You posted your example four days ago and no one has shown another.




Used examples must be hard to find.

These are known as 'Zig-Zag Roulettes'.

As mentioned by Bobby De La Rue above, the zig-zag rouletting proved unsatisfactory.

Scudder (RPSV, 2013) informs us that "the sheets were difficult to separate and at the same time tended to fall apart" and were returned to the lithographic office for perforation, as seen on the stamp at the top of this thread.

There are seven different configurations of coloured and plain roulettes with and without perforations added.

They are a very interesting part of Queensland postal history.




This is borne out by the catalogue prices of the rarer configurations - they are higher than the mint prices.