Extensive Recut And Plate Fractures Of The 1966 $1 Navigator

These varieties are on the same electro. The top variety corrected a weak band running across the unit resulting in the rigging on the sails being weak and missing. The extensive recutting to correct this so weakened the plate that a crystalline fracture (shown on the bottom stamp) subsequently developed, which zig-zags across the main-mast and sails for 4.5mm.

Thanks for showing these Rob - nicely illustrated The navigators are among Australia's most handsome issues.

Seeing Flinders reminded me of Trim. If anyone tells you cats don't like water, refer them to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(cat)

Excellent, Rob. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Bobby De La Rue. I try and make all my presentations interesting and it gives me great pleasure to see members interested in them. I do admit that the navigators are a most striking issue.

I remember being taught about Matthew Flinders' and his cat Trim, though we were told it was eaten by natives on an Island he visited.

Our cats hate water, but if they need to survive if placed in the same situation as Trim they will swim.

Thanks ikeyPikey. I have a few to show plus the full commercial issue of QEII I am at the moment preparing, it will be displayed in allotted years, such as the first display from 1953-1973, and will continue in allotments to the present day.

There is approximately 3,000 plus.