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All Forums Category: World Stamps and Covers Discussions Forum: World Modern Stamps Mint and Used

Need Help Identifying A Sideways Water Mark Please

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Posted 01/22/2023 09:55 am

I'm a new stamp collector and have not had enough practice Identifying the multiple water marks yet . I measured the hoch to 6 mm. I'm still learning the lingo. Thanks.

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Posted 01/22/2023 10:06 am

Welcome.
This might help ...
https://stampsmarter.org/features/F...earHome.html
Don

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Posted 01/22/2023 10:30 am

Thank you 51 Studebaker. All the sites I visited all have the horn running the length of the stamp not horizontal. The only way I can match it up is to turn it 90 degrees. is this common? I know they did print sheets with 2 water line directions on the same sheet but not side ways. I've only researched for a couple weeks so I'm no expert by any means.

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Posted 01/22/2023 11:10 am

I'm sorry I should have said turn it 90 degrees and then invert it. Then that will match up to the watermark.

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Posted 01/22/2023 12:02 pm

This looks like DDR & posthorn, but not sideways. It looks inverted as it is

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Posted 01/23/2023 12:37 pm

Can any one tell me in which direction on the back of stamp the water mark DDR and posthorn travel , parallel or horizontally to an up right German 1953- 1959 5 year plan stamp?

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Posted 01/23/2023 1:55 pm

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Can any one tell me in which direction on the back of stamp the water mark DDR and posthorn travel , parallel or horizontally to an up right German 1953- 1959 5 year plan stamp?

The watermarks are normally oriented as shown in Don's link above, but Michel does list varieties. Below are the watermarks:

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Posted 01/23/2023 5:33 pm

Thank you kind sir. My catalog dose not arrive hopefully by the end of the week. I am wondering why water mark X1 and X11 are laying on there side? Is it just to show that the water mark runs across horizontally instead of Y1 parallel? Looking forward to all the fun.

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Posted 01/23/2023 6:16 pm

Cownick - The watermark illustrations are not meant to match an actual stamp but rather they show the dimensional differences of the watermark components themselves and the general orientation of vertical and horizontal. They are "snippets" of a sheet of watermarked paper for this issue.

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Posted 01/23/2023 6:44 pm

Thank you I understand now.

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