Australian KGV Stamps Explained.

Beautiful images!

Still can not find my ID books!

Sometimes I must spend half my day looking for thing after the massive clean up.

My stamp tongs are my biggest issue to be truthful.

Hello !
May I ask you to comment on the top of the crown of this green 1p GV. Instead of being rectangular it is made up of two circles. I have got some GV (not too many, but still around 100 different values and Wks), yet none has the ñrown top like that.

Hi CollGStamps.

Your stamp is a small multiple watermark or a CofA watermark.

The crown flaw is very attractive on your stamp but I can not see it listed in ASCS KGV Book. It is a flaw if recorded should be in this book.
I am pretty sure that steel plates were in use for those printings. Which reduced constant print flaws greatly.

It to me is a one off printing flaw. Maybe someone else knows more.

Nice Stamp!

Hi KGV Collector !
Thank you for the answer. Your thread is very interesting. On reading it I set to look through my limited suppy and discovered a few interesting stamps, like this one with letters N Y connected. I look forward to more descriptions from you.

I also see a long, vertical line on the extreme left side of the stamp. I don't have the catalogs, but I'm sure the "NY" version is listed (see diagram middle page 13).

Yes, Partime, this one is listed and was discussed in the same thread. I was just saying I would have never known had it not been for KGV Collector's thread. As to the white vertical line, I see that too, but I think it's what is called here "tin shed".

Hello! CollGStamps.

Your 1d red is a (71. m. 4) NY Joined used $150 single watermark.

Or Your 1d red is a (74. m. 4) NY Joined used $100 Large Multiple watermark.

The left printed margin could be something as well.

You have got yourself a "constant printing flaw" that is hard to come by!

Great find, Collg. Please post some more.

Thank you, KGV Collector, for the info, I'd never think it was so pricy (the stamps turned out to be a single watermark). Unfortunately it is not perfect (the perfs down have minor problems and the cancel is not clear), but as I do not sell stamps, only buy them for myself, I am quite happy.

Thank you, Partime, I'll try.

Here is another stamps with the rounded crown (single WK).

The crowns on the KGV printings are all over the place.

With many just the way the printing took place on any given day but there is many crown constant printing flaws as well concerning the crown.

On hot summer days they use to take the printing machine out of the boiling hot tin shed and they would do the work of printing on the outside footpath. The heat would also effect the gum on the printing paper and it would curl and bend making the printers job very difficult, if not impossible.

The printers did everything they could to stop us collectors getting excited about a printing mistake. One person enemy is another persons love!

Good thing the printers of the day could use their bad printed sheets as government punched perfins. Large lots of perf "OS" are very hard to win these days.

Could you please elaborate on the crown constant printing flaws. If possible show examples to illustrate. I think it'll surely be appreciated by everyone.

By the way, do you think the 1 1/2p stamp might be course unsurfaced paper (1923), or I want too much, the date and cancel being incomplete.

The crown flaws are scattered across the different pages of the images of the constant printing flaws in ACSC. It is a bit difficult to post them.

I do have some fly speck books. Maybe one of them will some crown flaws bunched together.

These books are buried in plastic tubs that make the legs for my work area so it is not an easy thing to do.