Horamakhet
12 Nov 2019
09:32:43pm | Hi to all
Whilst putting the koala 4d stamps in a temporary stockbook, I came across this.
This is not post usage damage, as you can clearly see the postmark is across the area where some of the colour is missing.
I looked at it with a 10X jewellers lens and a stereo microscope and you can see the paper fibres clearly, and it is not thinned either.
Another interesting curiosity in the bulk lot that I bought. I still have a few thousand other values to put into a temporary stockbook, and what I am showing at present are those items that stick out like a sore thumb. Pity that it is such a messy pair.
Regards
Horamakhet
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Rob1956
Member ACCC (Australian Commonwealth Collectors Club of NSW)
13 Nov 2019
09:50:36am | re: FOUR PENNY KOALA SG 170
The cancellation does seem to be placed over the missing colour. It could be possible that the stamp was damaged prior to it being used on a letter.
1. Stuck to the top sheet when printed.
2. Something at the owner’s residence stuck to it (being in a draw perhaps) prior to it being stuck to the letter, or after it was stuck on and left under something (when I was about 10, my father used to put a large telephone book onto a pile of envelopes, pick me up and plop me onto the book, telling me not to move until he came back, which was about an hour later – No, I was not a fat kid, but rather skinny really).
It is really hard to tell but I do not think it is a variety (but I could be wrong).
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