Postmark Theme, New, Old, How Or Why.

A couple of new pickups - old is good,right??
Paul

Beautiful stamps Paul
very nice indeed.

rod222
Thanks
Forgot to upload this guy, Feb 29,1916- Yarra Junction
Paul

Paul, I mean to drag out my Western Australian bible,
and see if the dropped date plug on the black swan is listed.
That is quite pronounced, and there may be some gossip about it.

When you study the SA sixpence, you can see the ridiculous
distance between impressions to allow for perforation.
No wonder the stamp is radically perfed.

Great cancels, Paul. I should pick out the Birmingham cancel on the biggest-stamp thread and put it here...it's a pretty nice strike.

Here is the QV from the biggest stamps thread picked out from the larger scan:




And Edward from a couple years later and quite a few miles north:

Paul,
Your west aussie swan postmark is shown bottom right, last but one. (duplex cancel)
I still have to look at the black swan cat
to see if the dropped date plug is recorded.

rod222
Thanks for the info. I have been looking online and only been able to locate a couple of images of this cancel.
Do you have any idea when it was first put into use?
Thanks
Paul

Tough call, Paul.
I am not aware if this cancel of yours is a CDS or a Duplex cancel.
(Duplex cancel shown on the card)
If it is a CDS the earliest known use [eku] is 15th July 1859.
If it is part of a duplex cancel, then late 1864.
There is no reference to the date slug in the WA work,
but examples shown [proving covers] evidence the two numerals
after 18 (18**) are of a different size, reasoning indicating
removable plugs.
HTH

If you have a healthy imagination Paul,
(and what philatelist comes without this quality? )

One of these likely lads may have struck your stamp,
possibly the shy little lad, who is afraid to face the camera.

rod22
What great pic! Bet they had no idea people would be reviewing their work over 140 years later?
Do you think the cancel on my stamp matches with the duplex cancel in the bottom right position of the card?
Some of the letters "R" in Perth, "JA" in the date and alo the "6" seem to be different ( or maybe I have an over active healthy imagination )?
Thanks for posting
Paul

This is only a guess, but I reckon there would be
a fair volume of mail passing through Perth,
even though gold was not discovered until the 1880's,
but I would suspect multiple CDS's and duplexes.
The card merely shows "typical" examples, and you would need
to compare your stamp with known strikes.

The evidence on your stamp would point to a CDS,
because with duplex cancels (generally) the stamp would receive the
killer, with the CDS portion on the cover.

Yes! This one is postally used. It must be an invisible postmark. Amazing postage from an Australian decimal variations dealer. Received with much thanks from one of the good guys. KGV.

Hehehe
Good one KG5, a keeper.
What is the rare perforation?

Rod I did not write the rare perf David Mallen did. I looked it up and it is because it is a sheet stamp. His variations catalogue has helped me with some of the mysteries in Aust dec. KGV

Edit more info. The normal perf is 14x14.4 var 14x13.7 This var is in all denoms in sheet form. The 2nd perf is the rare one.

Other Tourist Precincts variations 4x55c booklet perf 11.2x11.2
4x55c roll stamps 12.7x12.8