In looking through my Bermuda issues, Scott #'s 67 & 68, It notes a watermark 4. Don't have a clue what this means. What am I looking at and is there some sort of gauge needed for doing this check?
Watermarks are described and detailed in most catalogs. If you have a Scott Catalog, the information is located in the introduction to each volume. British Commonwealth watermarks, are illustrated in the introduction. All other watermarks are illustrated at the beginning of each country.
Watermarks are like when you have fine paper and hold it up to the light and you see an image. Stamps were watermarked to make them harder to counterfeit.
Here's an example from the Scott Catalog of a USA watermark across a sheet of stamps.
This is how it will appear from back of stamp
Why the loons in SG still insist on showing the images as seen from the front is beyond me. The only people likely to see it in that state are the printers and paper manufacturers.
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re: Watermarks on Postage
The Bermuda watermark is called multi "Script CA" as opposed to a multi "Block CA" (Crown Agents). Others commonwealth nations may be a single crown or CA, and there are hundred's of different marks used by other countries.
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