All Australian King George V wiki posting thread

[Greg Ioannou]

17R7
DESCRIPTION
White margin at right: Small variable colour spot joining frame to 7th and 8th lines of shading (counting down) below emu's tail.

[Greg Ioannou]

UCV H149
DESCRIPTION
Crown and shading at left: Right end of 3rd line (counting down) at left of crown removed by small diagonal cut downwards from left to right. The cut penetrates the outline of the crown, ending between the second and third pearls.
Is adjacent to H150.

[Greg Ioannou]

Block, 3L7-8/3L13-14, (inverted) single watermark.

The individual stamps:

3L7

This copy does not show the white flaw to the left of the U in AUSTRALIA.

The damage in the left frame is presumably transitory.

3L8, State 2

Left frame: Two blunt open notches occupying 3mm and commencing 4 mm from bottom corner.
Value tablet: Upward notch from margin below right centre of H of HALPFENCE.

3L13

No known flaws.

3L14

Neither of the reported flaws (shading behind roo and notch in RVT) appear on this copy.

[Greg Ioannou]

17L24
State 1 (green and pre-no-watermark red printings)
A. Shading in oval: Bumping up at the right ends of 7 lines in front of emu's breast, giving the appearance of a half-moon of colour.

State 2 (no-watermark and post-no-watermark red printings)
A. Shading in oval: Bumping up at the right ends of 7 lines in front of emu's breast, giving the appearance of a half-moon of colour.
B. Darkening between emu's legs and below the tail.

[This copy is State 2.]

[Greg Ioannou]

28R48

DESCRIPTION

Six flaws.

(a) right frame: small sharp inward notch immediately below top corner.

(b) Shading in oval: small break to right of centre of 8th line, counting up, below neck.

(c) Right value shield: line shaped like handle of shepherd's crook through ball of figure 2 and curving down just before meeting side of large 1, There is also a line upwards from the top almost joining the base of the small 1. (E.28)

(d) Shading behind emu's legs: roughly triangular flaw caused by absence of right ends of 11th and 12th lines (counting down).(E28)

(e) Shading between emu's legs: small break in outline at centre of rear leg, with variable abnormalities in adjacent shading. (E.28)

(f) Head and shading at front: distortion of outline of neck immediately below beard giving appearance of Adam's apple. The shading line joining the lower part of the projection has its upper side rough throughout its length.(E28)

N.B. Some copies show abnormalities in shading on neck and across band which are in line with the flaws on the emu and in the shading, and this may indicate a cracked electro.

Combinations (E.25, 26, 27) (a), (b).
(E.28) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f).

[Greg Ioannou]

This stamp is from this block (23L5-56;11-12). Wiki already has good copies of the other three stamps:

23L5
No known flaws.

[Greg Ioannou]

The following two stamps are from this block, which is 23R17-18; 23-24.

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23R17

No known flaws.

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23R18

No known flaws.

[Greg Ioannou]

23L8
DESCRIPTION
Dark Band: Right of centre: a continuation of 23L2. The deeper inking begins with the upper frame, which is thickened for 5mm from right side of the crown.

All the white areas on the crown are reduced in size & shading to the right is darkened. 'RAL' is thinned, as are 'AGE' & 'CE'.

Value Tablet: Small thin line left of 'T' of THREE.

[I believe this copy shows the flaws more clearly than the one that is in the wiki.]

[Kainnikanada]

½d wiki:

1L1 2nd state

I've just added this stamp and enlargements to the appropriate wiki.

[rsellens]

17R49

First State: Late pre no-watermark single red printings and early no watermark printings.
This example is on unwatermarked paper.

Shading in oval: Very fine diagonal break running down from left to right slightly to the left of centre of the 19th shading line down behind the king's head.

Shading on neck: Large irregular flaw at the base of the king's neck resulting from the absence of parts of the 6th to 9th shading lines counting from the back. The 6th line is slightly shortened. The 7th line has 0.5mm missing at its lower end. 0.75mm of the 8th line is missing apart from a small spot just above the middle of the break. The 9th line is broken for 0.25mm 0.75mm from its lower end.

[alex_c_y1977]

½d wiki

3L18 - vertical white scratches through right side

[alex_c_y1977]

½d wiki

3L24 - Vertical white scratches through right side

DONE DONE

[satsuma]

4½d Wiki

ACSC 118k Single Watermark

118 1L48

corner magnified

Cracked NW corner.
The top frame is cracked for 3.5mm from the corner. May be partially over-inked.


ACSC 119k Small Multi Watermark Perf 14

119 1L48

[satsuma]

4½d Wiki


ACSC 118n Single Watermark

118 1L58

Spot on S magnified

White flaw on S of Australia

[satsuma]

4½d Wiki

ACSC 118g Single Watermark

1L24

First State: Flaw in the base of the right value tab.



ACSC 118i Single Watermark

1L30

A variable vertical flaw to the right of the right value tab



ACSC 118j Single Watermark

1L31

A diagonal discus shaped flaw on the fourth bloom of the left wattles

1L31 flaw magnified

[satsuma]

4½d Wiki

ACSC 119o Small Multi Watermark Perf 14

119 1R1

Sloping break in left frame opposite kangaroos elbow. Curving inward cut to SE corner



ACSC 120r Small Multi Watermark Perf 13½*12½

120 1R4

White dot to the right of the 2 in the right value tab. Variable white cuts in the frame opposite the right wattles.

[Greg Ioannou]

2R13 S3

DESCRIPTION

Lower Left Corner, The white border of the left frame below the lowest projecting point is irregular, and the left white border of the left value shield is irregularly widened in its inner side.

[josto]

KGV 1/2d green single wmk Electro 3 position 3L30 "Vertical white scratches through right side":

Greetings

josto

[satsuma]

I believe this block is 7R28-30 - 7R34-36 as it is consistent with faults described by Davidson and Dix.

3d KGV block of 6 with top left 7R28?

7R28 - No faults listed

7R28

7R29 - No faults listed

7R29

7R30 - No faults listed

7R30

7R34 - Described as:
a) POSTAGE the colour centre of the O is enlarged and colour encroaches on it's outline between 7 and 9 o'clock making the lower left part of the outline straight.
b) POSTAGE band: small dot or mark just below the letter O at 7 o'clock.
c) Left value shield: the upper half of the right border thinned
d) Outer white oval: thinning under POS of POSTAGE. (May not be present)
e)Value Tablet: the thin curved line at the top of the tablet is abnormally thin under the P of POSTAGE.
f)Shading at left of value tablet: a variable number of lines, usually 4 or 5 at the upper part of the shading are thickened, and some of the thickened lines may coalesce to form solid colour.

7R34

7R35 - Described as - Retouched GE of POSTAGE - letters are thinner than normal with a small upward extension from the upper serif of the G.

7R35

7R36 - No faults listed - although the white shape at the very top of the crown has become joined to the part below it.

7R36

[satsuma]

We need an executive decision as to where the information about the "hollow S" overprint is located in the wiki.

It's listed in the ACSC as:

½d Orange 69(OS)(8)r
1d Green 82(OS)h recorded from all 4 plates
2d Red SMW 102(OS)j (does not occur on all sheets)
2d Red CofA 103(OS)j (does not occur on all sheets)
3d Blue 109(OS)(8)m
4d Olive 116(OS)(3)u (does not occur on all sheets)
and it is not present on the 5d value.


Upper image hollow S - lower image normal

Upper image 109(OS)(8)m found on 8R17

The timeline of production of these overprints also raises a question.

½d Orange stated to have utilised a 240 forme delivered into stock 21 Apr 1932
1d Green stated to have utilised a 120 forme (at least sometimes), issued Mar 1932
2d Red SMW stated to have utilised a 240 forme issued Feb 1932
2d Red CofA stated to have utilised a 240 forme issued Feb 1932
3d Blue a 240 forme is implied by the hollow S being identified as plate 8 only issued Mar 1933
4d Olive stated to have utilised a 240 forme delivered into stock 2 Feb 1932
5d Brown stated to have utilised a 120 forme delivered into stock Jan 1932.

The logical inference is that first a 120 forme was made to overprint the 5d value to match the sheet size.
Then when the decision was made to overprint the 2d and 4d values a second 120 forme was made which could be attached to the first forme as required allowing the overprint of the larger sheets. This second forme was produced with the hollow S.

This explains the hollow S on the 4d olive being on the upper plate and on the 3d blue being on the lower plate. If the 240 forme was not separable into 2 by 120 formes, this would be impossible.

This also explains the occurrence of the variety on all four plate of the 1d Green as it allows the formes to be attached in different orders at various times, thereby making such occurrence possible.

What can we make of the comment "not found on all sheets"?
Two explanations come to mind.

It may be that there was a third 120 forme and from time to time the two without the hollow S were attached together.

It may also be that when a second overprint run was decided on, the 240 sheets had already been guillotined so a single 120 forme was utilised and it happened to be the one without the variety.

I'm quite happy to receive further comment about this, whether in support or to refute.

[Greg Ioannou]

8A/R 42 S2

DESCRIPTION

BROKEN TOP CROWN

State 2 Late Red Printings

Crown: Right corner of the cross is cut obliquely; part of the left side is missing.

Left Frame: Wide notch from 2-3 mm above the lower frame becoming progressively deeper towards its lower edge.

Lower Frame: Notch 0.5 mm wide on the inner side starting 10.5 mm from the left frame. The notch is deeper at its right end where it nearly breaks through the frame.

[rsellens]

3L1

DESCRIPTION

White Oval: Small rounded flaw on inner edge below "AU" of "AUSTRALIA" caused by the absence of the ends of one or two shading lines (not in heavily inked copies).

King's Head: Blurred spot in hair below centre of parting.

King's Head. Two spots at back of neck, the upper one of which is level with the lobe of the ear, caused by breaks in the 3rd and 4th shading lines (counting back).

[Greg Ioannou]

The following four stamps are from this block:

The individual stamps:

3L50

DESCRIPTION

No known flaws.

3L51

DESCRIPTION

No known flaws.

3L56

DESCRIPTION

1. Small dot to the left of T of THREE.

2 and 3. P and E of PENNY joined by a narrow line at middle stroke of E. (Not clear on this copy.) Upright stroke of E thickened to right below the middle stroke.

4 and 5. Flaw at lower left corner of right value shield caused by an outward notch from the white margin. Break in the right end of the shading line immediately adjacent to the value tablet flaw.

3L57 State 1

DESCRIPTION

1. Small notch in the top edge of the lower frame immediately under the right end of the last shading line.

(In State 2, this notch is larger and has a thin vertical scratch through it.)

[Greg Ioannou]

3R39 State 1 (early black-brown printings)

DESCRIPTION

1. Shading on king's neck: the first full line behind the ear is broken in the middle (not constant).

(In State 2, four lines of shading at the back of the king's head are weak.)

[Greg Ioannou]

7R23, Early state

DESCRIPTION

From the top down:

1. Upper Frame: Narrow break where the frame should join the left side of the top of the crown.

2. Small break in the third shading line above the left wattles.

3. Shading at the right of the left wattle spray: 17th line (counting down) broken for 0.5 mm immediately before it joins the leaf of the spray. (Partly obscured by the postmark in this copy.)

4. White flaw on emu's leg.

5. White dot to right of right fraction bar.

6. Spot above the R in THREE.

7. Spot between L & F of HALF.

8. Left Lower Corner: Rebuilt with added metal resulting in a ragged appearance of 2 mm of the lower frame, abnormal pointing of the corner, and running together of lines of shading adjacent to the corner. The repair wore rapidly. This early printing shows a part of the repair having separated from the main stamp design.

[Greg Ioannou]

The following four stamps are from this strip, 1L15-1L18.

1L15

DESCRIPTION

No recorded constant flaw.

1L16

DESCRIPTION

No recorded constant flaw.

1L17

DESCRIPTION

No recorded constant flaw.

1L18 S1

DESCRIPTION

State 1

There is a small rounded notch upwards and inwards from the outer white oval towards the base of the letter "E" of "POSTAGE" at the right.

[rsellens]

½d ORANGE SINGLE WATERMARK

6R6

DESCRIPTION

Right Frame: Sharp, deep horizontal mark at bottom almost reaching the white margin. (Not in multiple or early single printings.)

[rsellens]

½d ORANGE SINGLE WATERMARK

6R5


DESCRIPTION

No Known Flaw

[rsellens]

½d ORANGE SINGLE WATERMARK

6R11


DESCRIPTION


AUSTRALIA: Spot between middle & lower curves of the S, sometimes it is joined to the lower curve.

[rsellens]

½d ORANGE SINGLE WATERMARK

6R12

DESCRIPTION

Right Value Shield: Diagonal break in outer frame in a continuous line with fraction bar.

[rsellens]

½d GREEN SINGLE WATERMARK

2R4

DESCRIPTION

NO TOP TO CROWN and two flaws:

Single Watermark late stage.

Upper Frame: White spot 3.25 mm from the right corner breaking through the upper edge of the frame.

Crown: Top almost completely missing (probably later printings only). In the copies showing this flaw the upper frame shows wear for a variable distance on either side of the crown

Lower Right Portion Of The Stamp: A number of small marks mostly in thicker portion of lower right frame, but some are at and above the lower right corner of value shield, and one small dot below and to the right of the tail of the figure 2 (occasionally almost completely over-inked)

[rsellens]

½d GREEN SINGLE WATERMARK

2R53

DESCRIPTION

Oval: Developing flaw between the king's moustache and inner white margin of the oval; in earliest printings appears as a darkening of the whole area, on which an egg shaped flaw 0.5mm x 0.75mm develops later below the nose. With later still a circular spot 0.25mm in diameter between the upper lip and the white margin.

[rsellens]

½d GREEN SINGLE WATERMARK

1R37

DESCRIPTION

Coloured oval: Linear flaw 0.5mm long between the first "A" of "AUSTRALIA" and the nose of the kangaroo.