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Ultra Thin Spur On KGV Die 2.

 
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Posted 03/17/2020   03:10 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add finches to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

Appears to be the 'thinnest' spur I've seen, so easily overlooked....cannot imagine the spur any thinner, but it's possible.


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Posted 03/17/2020   09:22 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Pardon me for asking, but "spur on what?" For those of us who don't collect Australia, please describe what we should be looking at, or post an image with an added arrow, or post a "normal" example for comparison.
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Posted 03/17/2020   5:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It concerns a spur of metal on the King George V, 1d (One Penny) Die ll
In the Left Hand Value Tablet, situated adj the bottom of "1"
It exists in 13 x different angles, and appearance.
Bib: Plating the KGV 1d Die 2
Bert Wajer , Gordon Monk. 2004

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Posted 03/17/2020   5:40 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Addenda.
There are 3 theories today, as to how the die ll spur came into being.
The first ( and as I always knew it) a splinter of metal was embedded in the transfer roller.

For many years its has been erroneously believed that the Die ll was a separate die, it is nothing more than a broken Die l.

Bib: as above.

The original poster's stamp is a (damaged) Die 1, (the shading lines merge with the Kangaroo's back, and spur ?)
In Die lll of the same stamp, it does not, space between shading lines and back of Kangaroo.

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Edited by rod222 - 03/17/2020 5:46 pm
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Posted 03/18/2020   12:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add finches to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Rod222,

Thank You for added detail.

John, if your interested there's two other die 2 states that seem(imo) *easily overlooked/missed*, as a result merged & intermediate flawed stamps appear elusive.


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Posted 03/18/2020   12:18 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Finches,
I have / had quite a few spurs on the penny green, I was delighted when I found them, earlier on in my collecting history.
Dashed if I can find them, which is unusual for me.

If I do find them, I'll post.

PS: The verbiage "Die ll spur" remains, so as not to confuse common knowledge amongst collectors.

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Posted 03/18/2020   03:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add finches to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Rod222,

I scanned this 'merged flaw' years ago before putting it away. I don't remember collecting same in 1d Green.


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Posted 03/18/2020   05:04 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Indeed,
lovely example of the merged flaw, almost unrecognisable to anyone sorting through the Sideface pennies.
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Posted 03/26/2020   10:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add finches to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
KGV 1d Green 'Merged flaw' C of A watermark. Might assist new collectors looking thru their Georges.

PS. Due to stamps condition this merged burr was undetected in the throw out pile....no wonder the mergers 'seem' elusive imo.

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