Australian KGV Stamps Explained.

I think the suggestion was also made just to walk it down to a local dealer, or bring it to a stamp show, and have someone soak it there for an opinion. It is very difficult to see from the scans.

I make many mistakes, but I doubt that this is one of them ...

Magic70

I asked you for a decent scan of your reversed C on another thread about 2 weeks ago - it has to be at 1200 resolution. Others have made good suggestions what to do with your stamps. Why do you keep avoiding perfectly sensible suggestions and requests by others.

Regards
Frank

One large SCAN would settle this so where is it ?

KGV you'll NEVER get KGVs out of your system ...you're hooked.

It is a very, very normal 2d red CofA watermark as seen from the back of a stamp.

The booklet 2d reds were full of inverted watermarks and your is not one of them.

You just do not have parts of a watermark different to the rest of the watermark.

If there was I would totally know about it.

These are SG 76, plate 3 and part of a block of 36. S.G. indicates these were printed by T.S. Harrison (to February 1926), thereafter A. J. Mullett. Is there anyway to tell which printer these are from?



Mike

The Harrison Perf 14 was not in Small Multiple watermark but was printed in Perf 14 in a Single, Large Multiple and the No watermark for that matter.

So if your watermark is SM its a Mullett print. Your stamps are Perf 14, as they count 17 perf tips across the top of the stamp.

If not SM then your stamps are Harrison.

Always Happy Stamping.

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, it's Perf 14 and it is the single watermark which makes it sg 76. T.S. Harrison printed these until they lost the contract to Mullett in February 1926. According to an article I've read, Mullett continued to print them on single watermarked paper until they changed to multiple watermarked paper in October 1926, hence my question on whether it is possible to tell the difference. Of course the article might be incorrect.

I only have the SG part 1 catalogue not any Australian specialised catalogues.

Mike

Interesting info mikyh.

All things are possible but you had me running back to my copy of ACSC.

It looks to me that the issue with these prints is trying to pick a Mullett print from a Ash print because of the small multiple prints from both of them. And to top it off they both had SM prints in Perf 14 & Perf 13.5.

My ACSC is saying that Harrison was the single watermark printer
only.

Interesting that they got the old 1d red plates out and repaired some. So fly speaking would come into the prints as a whole as well. These differences would be very popular info for the 1d green collector.

If you get any info about Mullett printing on single watermark paper it would be nice to see it on this thread.


Your 1d Greens look to have very nice centering.

G'day

I am a first year stamp collector - organizing my pretty big worldwide collection that I completed buying lots of stamps. Lucky me, I have many Australian stamps! )) Please kindly help me at least to figure out the exact names/numbers of the stamps in the pics below. The first two stamps had a single A watermark (with a crown). All others with watermarks CA. Any hope that I have something nice or rare? I will appreciate any kind of suggestions or comments! Please...

Aurora, have you tried going to http://stampworld.com ? You can find almost any stamp there.

Peter

Thank you, Peter. You are a real Gentleman (!) - I appreciate your kindness to me on this forum (you are the only one friendly "old shark" here ). I am so lonely with the many little boxes and envelopes full of stamps; still trying to organize... Greedy me - couldn't stop buying sets, now - I deal with my greediness again: I cannot just let them go or sit in the boxes... what if I have something really special, something rare?!

Look what I found! An inverted watermark "C of A"

The three scans you posted all seem to be the normal watermark ... not inverted. Some of these issues are known with inverted, though of not much extra value. (Some are valuable, though not this one.). Keep looking.

I found already the KVG Collector's comment (page 43): "The watermark on your stamp is correct. It is a CofA watermark.
When looking from the back of the stamp the watermark looks inverted but that is the way they are printed. It is a normal CofA watermark."

Yes, you are right. Anyway, happy to know more and more about the watermarks.
Thank you
Hopefully, my pics and our discussion helps someone that just reads here...))

Welcome to the forum. An inverted watermark means upside down, while a Reversed watermark would mean what you had thought. Australia also has several sideways watermarks, usually noted in their catalog, though I have difficulty figuring out whether sideways to the left, or sideways to the right. (I usually just compare to another copy.) I think there are even some where the "C" of "C of A" actually looks like an "O", but it would have to be very obvious because cancellations tend to make them difficult to identify. Have fun!