Beautiful, and with a lovely socked-on-the-nose small town cancel to boot!
I am still not sure what to look for to tell if a stamp is printed in aniline ink.
Thanks Chris,
Anglophile is correct smauggie. Here is some info I wrote earlier,
Aniline
Mint unhinged aniline stamps are very scarce and used aniline stamps are ruined by the ink “bleeding†when immersed into water. Aniline ink was an ink with a coal-tar base; it was an early attempt to prevent the stamp from being re-used. It worked as a preventive thwarting re-use but a nightmare for collectors of used stamps.
This early preventative was first used with 19th century stamps and was last used in Australia in 1952 on the very scarce 7½d.
The green-blue (aniline) stamp pictured has a chalky appearance compared to the regular type on the right. The aniline is clearly seen at the back of the stamp.
1952 aniline 7½d and on the right a regular stamp for comparison.
10/- 1948 Coronation Robes with slight aniline inking (ACSC 214B). It is reddish-purple (aniline) and not the deep or pale purple seen on the regular and scarcer issues of the Coronation stamps.
Hi Rob
Now all the different colours in the GEO V series is very confusing to me.
So reading between the lines this stamp would have possibly been printed with aniline ink because of the bleed through on the reverse?
A nice clear reading of the watermark as well, some hinge still attached.
Hi Rob
Sorry about being a pest.
This 71/2d Geo VI seems similar to your illustration above. So possibly aniline.
As well as having my own collection of stamps, the family decided to give me all the old stamp collections of everyone, because they knew that I collected stamps.
I had been away from collecting for years, but given the task of then sorting out the collections, renewed my interest. So slowly, slowly I am sorting through them as trying to put them in catalogue order. Mostly using Gibbons. I found volume two and three of the Decimals in the opp shop( thrift shop for overseas readers) but I will have to purchase the predecimal Elizabeth II,
front view
back, unfortunately although mint, they have hinge remnants.
Regards
Horamakhet
Hi Horamakhet
The George V 1d is definitely aniline.
Rob
With the aniline variety I have on the left you will notice that the King and the background is a bluey-green compared to the normal blue issue of your block of 4.
Rob
Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?
Horamakhet
I have all of those stamps but im guessing they are just regular ink ones. The stamps themselves still look great though!
"Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?"
"Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?
Horamakhet"
One penny deep carmine - aniline printing, this is the scarcest shade of the T.S. Harrison printing, the stamp has a large multiple watermark. The stamp is listed as very rare.
The CDS (circular date stamp) is dated "SOUTH YARRA VIC 13AU20" AUGUST 13, 1920.
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Beautiful, and with a lovely socked-on-the-nose small town cancel to boot!
I am still not sure what to look for to tell if a stamp is printed in aniline ink.
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Thanks Chris,
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Anglophile is correct smauggie. Here is some info I wrote earlier,
Aniline
Mint unhinged aniline stamps are very scarce and used aniline stamps are ruined by the ink “bleeding†when immersed into water. Aniline ink was an ink with a coal-tar base; it was an early attempt to prevent the stamp from being re-used. It worked as a preventive thwarting re-use but a nightmare for collectors of used stamps.
This early preventative was first used with 19th century stamps and was last used in Australia in 1952 on the very scarce 7½d.
The green-blue (aniline) stamp pictured has a chalky appearance compared to the regular type on the right. The aniline is clearly seen at the back of the stamp.
1952 aniline 7½d and on the right a regular stamp for comparison.
10/- 1948 Coronation Robes with slight aniline inking (ACSC 214B). It is reddish-purple (aniline) and not the deep or pale purple seen on the regular and scarcer issues of the Coronation stamps.
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Hi Rob
Now all the different colours in the GEO V series is very confusing to me.
So reading between the lines this stamp would have possibly been printed with aniline ink because of the bleed through on the reverse?
A nice clear reading of the watermark as well, some hinge still attached.
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Hi Rob
Sorry about being a pest.
This 71/2d Geo VI seems similar to your illustration above. So possibly aniline.
As well as having my own collection of stamps, the family decided to give me all the old stamp collections of everyone, because they knew that I collected stamps.
I had been away from collecting for years, but given the task of then sorting out the collections, renewed my interest. So slowly, slowly I am sorting through them as trying to put them in catalogue order. Mostly using Gibbons. I found volume two and three of the Decimals in the opp shop( thrift shop for overseas readers) but I will have to purchase the predecimal Elizabeth II,
front view
back, unfortunately although mint, they have hinge remnants.
Regards
Horamakhet
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Hi Horamakhet
The George V 1d is definitely aniline.
Rob
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
With the aniline variety I have on the left you will notice that the King and the background is a bluey-green compared to the normal blue issue of your block of 4.
Rob
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?
Horamakhet
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
I have all of those stamps but im guessing they are just regular ink ones. The stamps themselves still look great though!
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
"Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?"
re: Very Rare KGV Deep Carmine Aniline One Penny Stamp
"Now I know these are all printed with aniline ink, but how does one distinguish all the different varieties of colour?
Horamakhet"