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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Australia Scott #116 postmarks

 

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08 Apr 2022
02:16:00pm

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I bought several boxes from a dealer's estate that my local stamp store was selling in box lots. A different times I chip away at identifying items in it. This morning I've been working with King George V on Australian stamps. Besides the obvious damaged stamps, I'm trying to figure out what to keep and what to let go.

Here is a scan of postmarks on Scott #116. What would you do with so many duplicates? Some of the cancels are interesting but I don't really collect so many different cancels.Image Not Found

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08 Apr 2022
07:34:06pm
re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

Hi Connie,
Have you worked out what different "dies" you have in that bunch. I believe these stamps can have 3 different Die types. I enjoy going through and identifying them in the copies that I have. We used to have a member who only collected this stamp. There was enough variety to keep him busy just in this one stamp.

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09 Apr 2022
09:59:36am
re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

From a marketing standpoint, there are three types of collections/collectors that would buy parts of this lot, none of them for very much.

The 9 copies marked by the arrows, if put together as a lot, would appeal to a town cancel collector. Personally, as a dealer, I would not expect to get more than $2 for the lot of 9. (The lighter arrows represent "marginal acceptability")

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The two perfin examples lower right might fetch 25c-50c each (except for the damage on one).

The rest might appeal to the "fly speck" and variety collectors, but I would not expect them to go for more than a penny apiece as a lot, unless you do the fly-specking yourself and identify something worthwhile. In that case, that effort would probably represent the major value in the lot. Just ask some of the fly-speckers on this forum. There have been some notable threads that reported results of studying thousands of similar copies -- if that's what you like to do.

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14 Apr 2022
03:57:06pm

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re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

Good information. Thanks, Tim and Roy.

I need to look into more information about dies. I had hoped to get a specialized catalog, but was outbid on ebay. I'm not sure I'm $100+ curious enough. Maybe someday. Until then, I've stuck this page in a work-in-progress binder and there it sits for now. My to-do list is usually too long to do too much with a magnifier these days.

The information on the town cancels is helpful. So a bigger and less blurred view of a town name on the stamp is required for town collectors? That makes sense.

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08 Apr 2022
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I bought several boxes from a dealer's estate that my local stamp store was selling in box lots. A different times I chip away at identifying items in it. This morning I've been working with King George V on Australian stamps. Besides the obvious damaged stamps, I'm trying to figure out what to keep and what to let go.

Here is a scan of postmarks on Scott #116. What would you do with so many duplicates? Some of the cancels are interesting but I don't really collect so many different cancels.Image Not Found

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Tim
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08 Apr 2022
07:34:06pm

re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

Hi Connie,
Have you worked out what different "dies" you have in that bunch. I believe these stamps can have 3 different Die types. I enjoy going through and identifying them in the copies that I have. We used to have a member who only collected this stamp. There was enough variety to keep him busy just in this one stamp.

Regards ... Tim.

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09 Apr 2022
09:59:36am

re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

From a marketing standpoint, there are three types of collections/collectors that would buy parts of this lot, none of them for very much.

The 9 copies marked by the arrows, if put together as a lot, would appeal to a town cancel collector. Personally, as a dealer, I would not expect to get more than $2 for the lot of 9. (The lighter arrows represent "marginal acceptability")

Image Not Found



The two perfin examples lower right might fetch 25c-50c each (except for the damage on one).

The rest might appeal to the "fly speck" and variety collectors, but I would not expect them to go for more than a penny apiece as a lot, unless you do the fly-specking yourself and identify something worthwhile. In that case, that effort would probably represent the major value in the lot. Just ask some of the fly-speckers on this forum. There have been some notable threads that reported results of studying thousands of similar copies -- if that's what you like to do.

Roy

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14 Apr 2022
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re: Australia Scott #116 postmarks

Good information. Thanks, Tim and Roy.

I need to look into more information about dies. I had hoped to get a specialized catalog, but was outbid on ebay. I'm not sure I'm $100+ curious enough. Maybe someday. Until then, I've stuck this page in a work-in-progress binder and there it sits for now. My to-do list is usually too long to do too much with a magnifier these days.

The information on the town cancels is helpful. So a bigger and less blurred view of a town name on the stamp is required for town collectors? That makes sense.

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