George VI Era Cochin - Mostly Used

And a very happy and prosperous New Year to you too, Tom!

Three more holes plugged:



SG 73b - the large ANCHAL overprint on the litho printing, perf 13x13½ - the scarcest of the five variations of ANCHAL overprint



SG 80, and



SG 87 - the perf 13x13½ version

Hi Tony

nice items indeed, especially 73b, and an item believed to be 480 stamps printed in this perf: (could be a WW2 short print run)obviously from SG if im right; and the last one SG87, I dont feel it scarce to come and a regular print...do chk for the wmk as this will turn your stamp from 22pounds to 425 pounds

George, you're quite right: the SG 73b was a Christmas present to myself (my partner says she'll only be interested in my stamps when she gets the cheque for their sale after I'm dead) from Gibbons. The estimate of ten sheets is interesting, and it looks about right from the point of view of the price.

The SG 87 came in a lot from ebay. I was hoping it might be the T8a watermark, but of course, it wasn't. As you say, not in the same class as the other two. However, it is interesting that it's taken so long to pick up a copy of such a relatively cheap stamp. Perhaps it's a bit undervalued in Gibbons, like so many other Cochin items these days!

Hi Tonny,

Happy New Year to all Philatelists. I have send some images of certain error stamps which I have come across. Are they not worth posting in this forum ?
Now I got one VI Raja 6pies service Stamp (SG O94)with watermark inverted. The stamp cover the lamp in the watermark is full in inverted position. This shows other than O93 with watermark side ways as admitted by S Gibbons there exists VI Raja stamps with inverted watermarks.

Thomas Paul

Hi Thomas

I would have to check through my copies to be sure, but I think that inverted Type 27 watermarks aren't so rare. However, a sideways watermark should be unusual because the sheet wasn't square, and so it should have been obvious if the paper was placed in the wrong direction for printing.

Has anyone seen a sideways watermark on any value other than SG O93?

And Thomas, please do post scans of your errors. I'm sure we'd all be very interested to see them.

My efforts to post the images of some the errors which are not discussed here (like O82 overprinted three times; O94 overprinted twice etc) has again failed.

Thomas Paul

Hi Thomas,
Search the forum for tutorial:
There are a couple of posts with info on how to scan and post pics.
Let me know if you need further assistance as I love to see other peoples scans/pics.

The image of O94 with ON CGS overprinted twice is here

Hi
I hope this helps Thomas Paul.... for uploading images.
When you press the button "Post New Reply" you will see a screen like this :

At the bottom you will see :

Click the GREEN icon before "Add Image......." - you will see this :

Click the button "Choose File" and select the image you have saved. Then click button "Upload to..." and the image will be uploaded to your post... Remember to have file name without spaces and size less than 90K. Hope this was useful. Also pardon me admins/veterans if this was the wrong place to post this. Just wanted to help out.
Thomas

Just helping out Thomas Paul - received the following images from him to upload.



Thomas

The SG O94 with overprint double certainly looks promising. If you were going to sell it at any time, I would strongly recommend getting a BPA Certificate for it. If I owned the stamp, I would still get a Certificate, just in order to be certain about it.

The SG O82a is interesting in a different way. The overprint is surprisingly easy to find doubled on this particular stamp. Although the printers did make mistakes, the mistakes are usually quite rare. This time however, something seems to have gone badly wrong. Was it an inexperienced operator? Or was there some problem with that overprint? (It was used for the last time on this 1a.3p. and its fellow 1a.9p..)

Hi Tony.

First of all I want to thank my friend Mr Tholath for helping me to upload the images of my stamps. Regarding O82, it is not a double overprint but there are three overprints, one on the left and the other on the right on the hard struck. Pl see and offer your comments.

Thomas Paul

Hi Thomas

What you're seeing on the SG O92 is what is known as a 'chatter print'. The overprint forme has bounced on the paper after being applied. Chatter prints are not normally classified as double prints. You have a normal double print with a chatter print.

Tony

Hi Tony,
Chatter prints as you have narrated is common in O82 and is catalogued as O82a by Stanley Gibbons. But with three strikes, it is not so common. isn't it ?

Thomas Paul