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General Philatelic/Identify This? : GB Watermarks

 

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whitebuffalo
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04 Oct 2016
08:24:24pm
I'm getting ready to go through a boat load of GB definitive stamps and need a little help with watermarks.

I did a google and on site search and didn't find a comprehensive numbered listing, has anyone ever posted one here? Or can you point me to a site that has one?

Also, when a GB watermark is listed as a "lying watermark", are they refering to a watermark that is "lying" sideways?

This is an area that I've been putting off for years and I'm having a little trouble getting started.

Thanks for any help,


WB


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04 Oct 2016
08:43:30pm
re: GB Watermarks

A little fuzzy in the middle, but maybe this will help for starters;



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Ningpo
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04 Oct 2016
09:00:39pm
re: GB Watermarks

The more common GB watermarks should be found in this thread: Watermark Wiki

As for 'lying watermark', I don't know but there's a reference here: Catawiki

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04 Oct 2016
10:33:43pm
re: GB Watermarks

The Catawiki page has the original Dutch as "Liggend" which probably is the nearest auto translate into lying but could also mean stretched as in recumbent, pretty close to sideways in meaning, which the image Ningpo linked shows as watermark.
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whitebuffalo
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04 Oct 2016
11:23:55pm
re: GB Watermarks

I did find the Catawiki reference to "lying watermark" when I did a Google search, but it didn't really describe what it was refering to. Stamp World uses the term throughout the early to mid-century definitive series, but again, doesn't show what it refers to.(they may use it during other time periods too, but I didn't get that far)

musicman, those pages should go a long way to getting a good start. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the links and the help,


WB

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malcolm197

23 Oct 2016
10:24:51am
re: GB Watermarks

Just as a reminder. Standard watermark orientation as per (Stanley Gibbons) catalogue is shown looking through the front of the stamp. Watermarks can be inverted reversed or sideways or any combination thereof.

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whitebuffalo

04 Oct 2016
08:24:24pm

I'm getting ready to go through a boat load of GB definitive stamps and need a little help with watermarks.

I did a google and on site search and didn't find a comprehensive numbered listing, has anyone ever posted one here? Or can you point me to a site that has one?

Also, when a GB watermark is listed as a "lying watermark", are they refering to a watermark that is "lying" sideways?

This is an area that I've been putting off for years and I'm having a little trouble getting started.

Thanks for any help,


WB


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musicman

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04 Oct 2016
08:43:30pm

re: GB Watermarks

A little fuzzy in the middle, but maybe this will help for starters;



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Ningpo

04 Oct 2016
09:00:39pm

re: GB Watermarks

The more common GB watermarks should be found in this thread: Watermark Wiki

As for 'lying watermark', I don't know but there's a reference here: Catawiki

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sheepshanks

04 Oct 2016
10:33:43pm

re: GB Watermarks

The Catawiki page has the original Dutch as "Liggend" which probably is the nearest auto translate into lying but could also mean stretched as in recumbent, pretty close to sideways in meaning, which the image Ningpo linked shows as watermark.
Vic

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whitebuffalo

04 Oct 2016
11:23:55pm

re: GB Watermarks

I did find the Catawiki reference to "lying watermark" when I did a Google search, but it didn't really describe what it was refering to. Stamp World uses the term throughout the early to mid-century definitive series, but again, doesn't show what it refers to.(they may use it during other time periods too, but I didn't get that far)

musicman, those pages should go a long way to getting a good start. Much appreciated!

Thanks for the links and the help,


WB

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malcolm197

23 Oct 2016
10:24:51am

re: GB Watermarks

Just as a reminder. Standard watermark orientation as per (Stanley Gibbons) catalogue is shown looking through the front of the stamp. Watermarks can be inverted reversed or sideways or any combination thereof.

Malcolm

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