South African Stamps Difference In Colours ?

Here are my 5c Baobab trees

Top 2 original design, small print, Scott 260
the rest are redrawn Scott 333 or 379 if no watermark



My scanner does not show the actual real greenish/blue background colour
nor the golden yellow of the Baobab tree.

Here is a link I found that may help you sort out these definitives.
https://www.southafricacollector.co...h_Africa.htm

Heck yeah Germania, thanks!

Here's the tables from the SG commonwealth catalogue fir the different types in this definitive series.
The first two are the original set




The next one is the redrawn types



The next one is the new designs

Sorry, redrawn one never loaded
Hopefully here it is now

Hopefully, this is my version of original types 1 and 11 of the 2 1/2 c
There is more detail around the building and the upper window frame.

Here are my 2c Pouring Gold values.
The 2 on top have no watermark which would make them Scott 376
The other 4 below all appear to have a watermark but only on one
I am certain that it's Wmk. 359 the RSA Tete-Beche
which would make it Scott 329.



After I scanned that I noticed that there is something with the postmarks
on these stamps that I hadn't noticed before.

And lo and behold it appears that these 4 singles used to be part of a block
when I fit the jigsaw together.

PRETORIA
19 XII 72-15:30



Everything looks fine except the second partial postmark does not continue
into the white border or touch the stamp on the upper left.

Lithographing.
Looks like you have the same trouble as me….watermarks.
Despite using Ronsonol and a Signoscope T3, I'm having a lot of problems seeing watermarks or even non watermarks on at least 70% of the original versions. It's to bad on the redrawn versions
Nice postmarks by the way.

Yes watermarks are not my thing but I think I have this one right. Maybe.
South Africa Scott 329 Wmk 359
I played around with FastStone Image Viewer to bring out the watermark