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Oceania/Australia : FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

 

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Horamakhet
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02 Nov 2019
11:49:09pm
Hi to all

This stamp was in an old collection that I purchased last year, and have found many interesting items.

Now I wonder why he has put this into the album, and behind it, was a normal complete single copy of the stamp.

I have never heard of a pair like this, so I suspect it may be a deliberate attempt to fake a pair of stamps, and he just put it there as a curiosity.

All opinions appreciated.

Regards

Horamakhet

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Bobstamp
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03 Nov 2019
01:45:59am
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

It’s probably from a booklet pane. I’d check my catalogue, but I’m in bed, ready for the sandman to arrive. It’s beyond me why anyone would put that semi-pair of stamps into their album. With the pen cancel and stain, it’s the perfect candidate for recycling.

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Horamakhet
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03 Nov 2019
04:42:02pm
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Bob

Thanks for the info

I have not been able to find any booklet stamps like that in any catalogue, so the mystery remains.

Actually the cancel is not a pen cancel, but an actual line cancel from the post office, which is a common cancel, although it looks like a pen cancel.

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Horamakhet

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03 Nov 2019
04:54:37pm
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Horamakhet

Sherlock Holmes here to solve your mystery. Its not a fake stamp but a real booklet pair issued on March 23, 1960. The colour is deep blue. The normal single copy, and I assume you are referring to the stamp with perforations on all sides is from a sheet, not from a booklet. Your stamps are the bottom two.

All QEII booklet stamps are imperforate on the left, right and bottom of the stamp. And the quantity of booklets printed and distributed was 583,547,404.

It is type B because it has five shading lines in the loop of the "5"

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Booklet pane of 6

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Type A - Four shading lines in the loop of the "5"

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Type B - Five shading lines in the loop of the "5"

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Horamakhet
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03 Nov 2019
09:00:18pm
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Rob,

Thanks for that, would that also account for one of the stamps only being a half stamp?

Regards

Horamakhet

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04 Nov 2019
01:11:44am
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

I do not recall any guillotined varieties of that series, it’s most likely someone cut it in half with a pair of scissors to remove something.

Rob

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04 Nov 2019
07:45:58am
re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Rob

That's what I suspect, and he kept it as a curiosity

Regards

Horamakhet


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Horamakhet

02 Nov 2019
11:49:09pm

Hi to all

This stamp was in an old collection that I purchased last year, and have found many interesting items.

Now I wonder why he has put this into the album, and behind it, was a normal complete single copy of the stamp.

I have never heard of a pair like this, so I suspect it may be a deliberate attempt to fake a pair of stamps, and he just put it there as a curiosity.

All opinions appreciated.

Regards

Horamakhet

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Bobstamp

03 Nov 2019
01:45:59am

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

It’s probably from a booklet pane. I’d check my catalogue, but I’m in bed, ready for the sandman to arrive. It’s beyond me why anyone would put that semi-pair of stamps into their album. With the pen cancel and stain, it’s the perfect candidate for recycling.

Bob

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Horamakhet

03 Nov 2019
04:42:02pm

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Bob

Thanks for the info

I have not been able to find any booklet stamps like that in any catalogue, so the mystery remains.

Actually the cancel is not a pen cancel, but an actual line cancel from the post office, which is a common cancel, although it looks like a pen cancel.

Regards

Horamakhet

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Member ACCC (Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW)
03 Nov 2019
04:54:37pm

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Horamakhet

Sherlock Holmes here to solve your mystery. Its not a fake stamp but a real booklet pair issued on March 23, 1960. The colour is deep blue. The normal single copy, and I assume you are referring to the stamp with perforations on all sides is from a sheet, not from a booklet. Your stamps are the bottom two.

All QEII booklet stamps are imperforate on the left, right and bottom of the stamp. And the quantity of booklets printed and distributed was 583,547,404.

It is type B because it has five shading lines in the loop of the "5"

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Booklet pane of 6

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Type A - Four shading lines in the loop of the "5"

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Type B - Five shading lines in the loop of the "5"

Rob

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Horamakhet

03 Nov 2019
09:00:18pm

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Rob,

Thanks for that, would that also account for one of the stamps only being a half stamp?

Regards

Horamakhet

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Member ACCC (Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW)
04 Nov 2019
01:11:44am

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

I do not recall any guillotined varieties of that series, it’s most likely someone cut it in half with a pair of scissors to remove something.

Rob

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Horamakhet

04 Nov 2019
07:45:58am

re: FIVE PENNY QEII BLUE SG 129

Hi Rob

That's what I suspect, and he kept it as a curiosity

Regards

Horamakhet


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