Australian KGV Stamps Explained.

Interesting question Bujutsu!

The 2d orange would be more a constant printing flaw than a compartment line. It looks like a lump of metal has come away from the print of the stamp and settled in the area between the print of the stamps.




The compartment lines are a build up of ink that takes place between the print of the stamps after printing 100,000's of stamps at one go.
A stamp with compartment lines on all 4 side is rare and so on.

Does anyone have a different term for the definition of a compartment line?

Hi KGV Collector

I have hundreds of the KGV stamps in lots of varying shades which is driving me crazy, but all this info presented is amazing.
One question. Is it regarded as a no no, to gently write on the back of the stamps in 2b pencil the SG Numbers?

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Hi to all
KGV Collector, or anyone else, does it diminish the value of the KGV stamps if they are perfined both OS and NSW?
Regards
Horamakhet

Great to know. I have to pick up a good book and check for some of these varieties.

Hi Partime.


The 2d orange is very interesting as it is the least known about of all the KGV printings when it comes to constant printing flaws.

But the fly specking book is as thick as and very detailed. The shades are quite easy to discern if you can get a bunch of them.

A very popular stamp for collecting.

Hi Horamkhet.

With the KGV perfins "OS"most popular, perfin "T" would be 2nd and a close 3rd would be "OS/NSW".Very nice bunch of perfins!

I dislike notations on the back of stamps. To me it devalues them.

This one I call the Novel.

Thanks for the advice, KGV Collector.

Great Article on the KGV's

I have saved the thread in my favourites so I can constantly refer to it.

I find that I have trouble trying to follow the info in the ACSC

But I will persevere. Wish they did a colour version, my copy is 2007, so maybe they have.
Horamakhet

Hi KGV Collector

All the info you have provided is extremely valuable and useful.
Have you ever thought of producing it as a booklet.
I for one would be willing to pay for a copy.
Horamakhet

KGV Collector,

What do you think about the odd "2" in this example?

Hi Partime.

I need to look at the whole stamp to identify it properly.

But I can see the "W" in TWO is uneven so it is a dieI.

The stamp seems to have a look about it of over inking.

On the "2" the balls are smaller on the dieII than the dieI.

DieII the pearls in the crown are uneven, of different sizes.

DieI has the pearls even and the same size.

Hi Horamkhet

Keep using your ACSC it will become clearer as you have mentioned.




Yes mine is a 2007 copy as well I do not think another update has been printed. A colour KGV book done so it is shade perfect is a dream.......




If I had not needed to get into selling.....I still can not believe I am doing it...Decimal from 1990 to very recent. If I did not I would of put a KGV book together. It would be a total labour of love in total bliss for some years.......I still have some years in me yet!

KGV, it is most definitely a Scott #29 due to the watermark. Probably SG 63. I just thought the mark on the left "2" was interesting. Thanks for your insight.

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Hi KGV Collector and everyone else

Here are some of my KGV stamps, temporarily set up, until I work out the ACSC numbers and add them also, Please excuse the bad spelling and the reversed dates.
Regards
Horamakhet

Thanks Partime.

I have found it very hard to find a half way decent 2d Brown.

Yours has its centering a bit low but it is very nice stamp.

Hi Horamkhet.

I like your KGV page. Lots of folks on SCF collect like this. I missed the boat when it come to setting stamps out on pages.

I have bits of paper hanging out stock books next to the relevant stamps with the info needed. It is not an attractive outcome!