Australian KGV Stamps Explained.

Thanks Aussie Al
I got the first one wrong and I have been sitting here reading this massive Australian Commonwealth Specialist Catalogue it's an inch thick.
So far only found the one I don't have many so will have to look at purchasing some more.

Tug

with Aussie Al.

To circle the area in question makes it so easy to understand.
I am not able to do that. Still learning lots of things as well.

never would have seen or knew that,
thank you

KGV to put the shape around the white spot was and is real simple
I just made a copy of the original opened it in paint selected a shape from the shapes at the top and placed it on the white spot and saved it.

Tug

Thanks Tug I will try and do that.

Hi tomd
Go back to the 1d reds and see if you can find the printing flaws.
They are named and it is good fun.

If you have already done that you know what I mean. KGV

So cool to find KGV collectors, here are some examples of simplified shades of the 4 pence orange 1915-1921 from my collection - there are other shades within this group but for new collectors perhaps these are the starting point. The difficulty I have found is all colour shade variations of all of the KGV sidefaces is that you have to work with fresh looking stamps,obviously ageing and storage have an affect on the condition of stamps. I hope to share more of my collection with you as "KGV collector" has given a great introduction to these issues.

Nice lot Sydneyboy

KGVs are my favorite show us more.

Thanks Aussie Al, will do have 10's of thousands I have accumulated, lucky to have been able to purchase bulk lots over the years cheeeeep.In modern times the renewed interest has amazed me. However my main interest has been in Australian first day covers, firstly to get every issue on cover FDI as my Oz collection is complete now, everyone needs a new challenge. I am passionate about all of the early FDC producers (amazing collecting interest) however I keep going back to play with the KGV collection, the main mission sorting out the shades of the 1 penny reds - bit of a nighmare, find you can only spend a couple of hours at a times as your eyes cave in.

Here you are a great flaw on a 1 penny violet KGV with wow factor purchased from an exchange book for 50 cents - you can be lucky!

Sorry had trouble uploading another image, got rid of the piece of paper of that stamp as well, shame about the postmark.

Great find, Sydneyboy.

Greetings again from New Zealand, I have now read most of this thread and as already mentioned "great stuff" here are a few snippets from my collection some of which has been covered by this thread. This is my social philately side of collecting KGV (some ship mail, Paquetbot Colombo postmark, ships menu card, OS and OS/NSW on postal items, souvenir of first field post office, some roller cancels etc etc. enjoy. I collect the postal stationary, lettercards, newspaper wrapers all that stuff too. Show me some of your items if you have time.

Cheers

Thanks for sharing Sydneyboy.

Your KGV postal history is a great addition to this thread.

Really enjoyed your 4d Orange shades. It makes it easy to see the shade differences with your simplified examples. I think some of the other shades would blend in to much with the posted examples. What do you think? I live in shade isolation as a self taught person so it was great for me to see your buff examples but would really like to know if I have the deep buff picked out right. I do not think we can do it properly on line. John

Tug your avatar 15c Galah of all stamps!

Thanks KGV collector, I came to the conclusion that shades become near on impossible to correctly identify, simplicity has retained my sanity. I would suggest for new collectors especially in the area of one penny reds to keep to the basic groups, it will then be apparent to see some of the sub groups. However it does become guess work and an individuals interpretation. I like the postal history side of things, especially some of the enclosures I read all about early times. I see David Jones is in the news today I have some of their early postal stationary I think it even has the KGV embossed on their early envelopes - oh so much to collect, not to mention perfins. If anyone whats better scans of any items let me know, the OS perfins are a bit hard to see. Thanks for your feedback - hope you liked the 1 penny violet.