An Example Of Aniline Ink

These were apparently caused by ink bleeding through during soaking (I did manage to find an excerpt from an old book indicating that aniline ink was thought to have been used for this stamp)so I thought it may be of use to members who may have not seen/know the difference.
Paul

Looks a little like cancelling ink oil vehicle bleeding through, John, that being said, I do not recall many Aussie stamps suffering this fate,
possible to look at the face?

Rod the front of the KGV stamp posted with bleeding on back of!

All my KGVs are under decimal stamps at the minuet.
I know shades do not show up very well on line but I
have an example of the deepest Aniline shade I have ever seen!

I will post it one day. I put it away years ago because
it stands out so much!

Yes, well I have to agree with you John,
As you say, the cancellation ink has drawn the aniline through.

Interestingly in 1856 an Englishman, experimenting
with coal tar, found the first aniline dye.
His name was Perkins, I wonder if this was the partner
of Perkins Bacon the stamp printers.

I just love the coal tar information. I had no idea how this ink was made. Thanks to all. John

I have this Canada 3c Small Queen that appears to be analine ink. I think it is Scott/Unitrade 41, but analine varieties are not mentioned. I can never distinguish the different printings. I wonder why they are given major numbers anyway (like 37 and 41).

I have read occaisions such as yours BeeSee, go towards
identifying a certain type of stamp paper, when the image can be seen
from the back, but I am not certain that it applies here or not.

Illustrating the blessings of the world wide web,
Mr. J E Toy of Fiji
would have had to wait probably 3 months for a reply
to his query in June 1936

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I hope it's OK to revive this 2010 thread! I'm also wondering how to identify aniline ink stamps. Is a UV reaction a way to do this? I have about a hundred 10pf Bavarian red stamps (from the late 19th century) and under UV only one of the stamps had a strong reaction. It glowed bright orange. I think I read somewhere that aniline stamps were the first to have UV reactions. Does this mean that it's aniline?

I should mention that the Michel specialised catalogue does list an aniline variety for this stamp, but it's described in terms of its shade, not UV reaction.

I have read that aniline flouresces, but not seen it myself.
In general it is named and recognised by its general colour
and properties that include it breaking down easily when wetted.
It was used to prevent forgeries and removal of postmarks.
sometimes "bleeds" through to the back of the stamp
deep purple in colour.
KG6 Malay States are a prime example.




That's what one is SUPPOSED to do
it builds as a reference source for those that come after.

10 points to you for doing this.

Thanks for the comment, rod222!

BTW, I have established that my stamp in an eosin (not aniline) shade. It's Michel# 49b.

This thread has fascinated me recently on the subject of inks. Also reminded me of a few beautiful New Zealand stamps (pictured earlier) that I recently got in a recent acquisition and noticed rather quickly that besides the different perforation counts there seem to be different dies used as well. Some differences are rather subtle and others are very noticeable (see globe) as some seem "muddy looking" and others very sharp appearing. Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.

Are all these Aniline as well or do you need a back scan?



This one is absolutely gorgeous to me.

Try this link for info on the New Zealand Penny Universal and Penny Dominion stamps.

http://www.stamps4u.co.nz/

Ryan

Awesome! Also the large single was a WMK 61 perf 14 ~ Scott #108

Dragging up this 5 year old thread thanks to Google

This looks to me to be an example of aniline ink. Or did the ink bleed during soaking?