Scans of interesting or unusual KANGAROO stamps or covers!

norvic · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 07:40:38 am

I haven't read every post on this thread so apologies if this type of 'roo has already made an appearance.

Winslow Stamp Supply, Cross Street, Toorak, Vic to USA with 2½d rate to USA

compoundperf · **Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 16:13:27 pm

Hi to you all,
I have an interesting one here albeit a grotty one to boot .
The right hand border is almost missing, unusual in the roo printing I think , but looking at the rear (yuk) is a very visible thin , also it appears to have a line in the paper.
Do you think this line may have caused the frame flaw or is it paper pushed across from the thin, if you get my drift.
Even the perfs don't look right on that side as well, possibly a minor paper fold ???? .

Thanks you in anticipation of your answers

Fond Regards

C . P .

muruk · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 23:12:33 pm

norvic wrote:

I haven't read every post on this thread so apologies if this type of 'roo has already made an appearance.

Winslow Stamp Supply, Cross Street, Toorak, Vic to USA with 2½d rate to USA

I think this thread is for kangaroo and map stamps. Your 'roo probably needs to go here: http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=11803

muruk · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 23:18:11 pm

traralgon3844 wrote:

PeterS wrote:

There's a stamp dealer at Wandiligong :?:

Well, he was a second hand/collectables dealer and had some post cards so I extended the definition just a tad.

The post office there only opens for a couple of hours a couple of days of the week. It is actually a Community Postal Agent.

I've been here 18 months. I know they have an annual Nut Festival at Wandiligong ... but didn't know about a postcard seller feller. :shock:

The Old Tobacco Shed Museum, on the Porepunkah side of Bright also has a small assortment of kiloware, and a few hundred old postcards (but all of the kangaroos have already come home with me).

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 23:19:53 pm

Spotted this tonight.

The notation on the images say it all.

compoundperf · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 23:56:33 pm

Hi traralgon3844 ,
Yep I think your right about that , there is a break is it your stamp ??.

Regards

C . P .

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 00:04:27 am

compoundperf wrote:

is it your stamp ??.

Regards

C . P .

Unfortunately not. It finishes at 9.30 a.m. edst tomorrow.

It currently has no bids at 99c, but I suspect it will sell for a reasonable price.

compoundperf · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 00:12:28 am

Hi again ,
Ah well put a $1.00 on it and it could be :lol:

, but I think this is the wrong thread :lol:

Night Night

C . P .

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 00:19:34 am

muruk wrote:

norvic wrote:

I haven't read every post on this thread so apologies if this type of 'roo has already made an appearance.

Winslow Stamp Supply, Cross Street, Toorak, Vic to USA with 2½d rate to USA

I think this thread is for kangaroo and map stamps. Your 'roo probably needs to go here: http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=11803

Only just seen this reply, sorry. Title of thread says "Scans of interesting or unusual *KANGAROO* stamps or covers!" I can't move it now anyway.

compoundperf · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 00:40:01 am

HI IAN ,

Looks fine to me and in the right forum I think .

Regards

C . P .

P .S . What do you think of my 9d roo up the page

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2011 01:23:39 am

compoundperf wrote:

C . P .

P .S . What do you think of my 9d roo up the page

Not my area; looks thinned on the back, front is odd; maybe worn/damaged in soaking?

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 14:54:28 pm

I love a good variety but they are few and far between on 1st watermark high values.

Here we have the left stamp with the very rare "dogleg" flaw and the right stamp has the scratch south of Perth variety.

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manfaefife · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 19:33:44 pm

Bought a couple of covers yesterday with Roo's on them and after scanning the first one, I spotted what seems like a bite out of the Roo's tail, is this one a noted flaw on the 2/- or Just wishful thinking on my part ? I don't have the ACSC for Roo's Just the George V.

Throgmorton · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:22:35 am

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Very nice colours in this stamp! Looks great!

Paul

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 16:31:44 pm

5/ small multi, mnh corner stamp with scratch through back and slight misplacement upwards.

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compoundperf · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 16:49:05 pm

Very nice indeed , could call it a WET BACK Roo variety :lol:

compoundperf · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 17:46:14 pm

Hello to you all again ,

Here is a lovely pair of Half Penny Roo`s with a Beaut Perth cancel.

I will put them in the S. O. N. Section as well.

Also what do you think ??? on the left stamp is that possibly an
ACSC 1 .O. AustBalia , Your thoughts please .

Regards

C . P .

compoundperf · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 22:39:07 pm

I will add this and see if we get a reply ,

It certainly looks a bit different and I`m sure some one MAY comment.

Regards

C . P .

manfaefife · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 07:49:14 am

manfaefife wrote:

Bought a couple of covers yesterday with Roo's on them and after scanning the first one, I spotted what seems like a bite out of the Roo's tail, is this one a noted flaw on the 2/- or Just wishful thinking on my part ? I don't have the ACSC for Roo's Just the George V.

No replies on this one ?

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 08:21:15 am

compoundperf wrote:

I will add this and see if we get a reply ,

It certainly looks a bit different and I`m sure some one MAY comment.

Regards

C . P .

CP,

I think you might be onto something there, $1000 cat as well.

Looks good to me.

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 08:30:10 am

Oh,

And Arthur Grays single sold for $1600 in 2007 and yours is a lovely pair, probably worth $2000.

amfhf1 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:07:39 am

Not sure about the cancell on this one?

PeterS · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:14:56 am

Money Orders and Savings Bank counter.

amfhf1 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:23:26 pm

Is that more of a revenue use then Peter?

Kainnikanada · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:28:21 pm

PeterS:

I don't believe the lower set of letters spell "Counter". Perhaps the location is CLUNES.

amfhf1 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 13:07:43 pm

I am almost embarassed to say what I though it was lol a railroad line.

PeterS · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 13:23:54 pm

Kainnikanada wrote:

PeterS:

I don't believe the lower set of letters spell "Counter". Perhaps the location is CLUNES.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Counter isn't on teh cancel (never was). I meant that the canceller was used on the MO & SB counter at the post office concerned. :oops:

Kainnikanada · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 13:44:22 pm

PeterS wrote:

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Counter isn't on teh cancel (never was). I meant that the canceller was used on the MO & SB counter at the post office concerned. :oops:

...oh!

Rod

PeterS · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 13:48:57 pm

amfhf1 wrote:

Is that more of a revenue use then Peter?

No, it just happened to be that canceller that was used. Perfectly normal usage.

amfhf1 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 08:30:55 am

Gibbons 107 Top right stamp with a nice scratch from 6 pence value up through Roo left top with frame break between s and t of Australia.

PeterS · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 18:52:04 pm

The frame break between S and T is a charecteristic of the Die IIB, All stamps in the block have it, it's just that some have been inked over (also perfectly normal).

Nice scratch though.

erich · **Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 19:15:57 pm

Saw this SG 43 / Scott 55 in an upcoming auction:

and it got me wondering...what were they perforating stamps with in 1917, a weed whacker?

admin · **Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 19:43:20 pm

Ever hear of WW1 Erich?

Guess where all printing equipment and parts came from in that era. :idea:

PeterS · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 08:09:30 am

The paper quality was also very variable in those days. Combine poorer quality paper with wearing perforators (as Glenn alludes, the equipment primarily came from Germany) and you get some pretty poor perforations. For some reason, the 5/- and 10/- seem to be the most affected values?

josto · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 02:47:03 am

Hi!

I just got an older lot of some roos and I found this beauty! Now I know what is really meant with "outer frame break" at the substituted cliche of the 6d blue roo. I didn`t expect it so heavy broken. This one is a third wmk example (and here I`m quite sure it IS the variety). I think, although it has the corner perf bend, it is a quite nice example. Am I right with my expectations? I also found this vertical pair of 9d second wmk with the constant variety below A of Postage.

Greetings

josto

PeterS · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 07:03:01 am

Sure looks like it Josto, nice find!

waroff49 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:59:07 am

As per the title of this thread, I just had to include it here. Done by SB's chief designer and GOMC(D). It includes a personalized Kangaroo stamp and a unique kangaroo drawing reminiscent of the WW1 covers.

and the full cover.....

admin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:53:01 pm

PeterS wrote:

The paper quality was also very variable in those days. Combine poorer quality paper with wearing perforators (as Glenn alludes, the equipment primarily came from Germany) and you get some pretty poor perforations.

For some reason, the 5/- and 10/- seem to be the most affected values?

3d have unusually bad "fluffy" perfs too, most of the time.

admin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:56:23 pm

Kainnikanada wrote:

PeterS:

I don't believe the lower set of letters spell "Counter". Perhaps the location is CLUNES.

Agree.

admin · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:56:58 pm

josto wrote:

Hi!

I just got an older lot of some roos and I found this beauty! Now I know what is really meant with "outer frame break" at the substituted cliche of the 6d blue roo. I didn`t expect it so heavy broken.

This one is a third wmk example (and here I`m quite sure it IS the variety). I think, although it has the corner perf bend, it is a quite nice example. Am I right with my expectations?

Josto the crack got larger as the print run grew longer.

The recently discovered 6d "OS" example 1st wmk I have (possibly unique in Die 2B) shows the early stage.

Below is the earlier stage on 3rd in monogram.

GlenStephens wrote:

Global Administrator wrote:

...

josto -- you need to have this outer break/wedge for Die 2A.

I had Arthur Gray over here yesterday, and showed him this used 6d alongside his mint 6d monogram block (which of course MUST be correct) and he agreed they were the same.

Rounded top right corner appears not to be a requirement!

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 01:40:00 am

What do you make of this one? The big question is: Is it a CTO or a per favour/faked cancel?

Listed as Kangaroo 10/- stamp 1st watermark SPECIMEN + cto no gum

Asking price $425

I have a sneaking suspicion this stamp may have been discussed before.

amfhf1 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:54:03 am

Not sure I am reading this right Tookyamba? In blue

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:05:29 am

Toowoomba in Queensland.

PeterS · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 17:51:36 pm

traralgon3844 wrote:

What do you make of this one? The big question is: Is it a CTO or a per favour/faked cancel?

Listed as Kangaroo 10/- stamp 1st watermark SPECIMEN + cto no gum

Asking price $425

I have a sneaking suspicion this stamp may have been discussed before.

In this case a probable faked cancellation. I have a £2 CofA Specimen that has a definite CTO cancel as well. On that the CTO cancel is correct for the period. The one on the 10/- isn't.

admin · **Posted:** Sun Apr 10, 2011 18:21:32 pm

This is the infamous fake "Vic Aust" a large Melbourne dealer has vandalised 100s of stamps with. :twisted:

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 01:05:37 am

Not in the league of many others, but this miss perf has to be on the borderline of collectable. Do our experts consider it collectable? Is it possible it is from the top of the sheet?

Considering the extent of the miss perf at the bottom, I thought there should be more of the next stamp above if it was from anywhere else.

PeterS · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 08:40:54 am

Paul, it is a good example of poorly perfed stamps that were used for Official purposes, so could be useful for an exhibit for that purpose. However, I wouldn't consider it otherwise collectible, just a very poorly perfed stamp that also has damage to the upper perfs.

tooler · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 08:07:37 am

I had put this 1d Roo on the SOTN thread, and it was brought to my attention that the cancel has "Special" on it. Could someone tell me what this means? To bad about the perfs.

Mr Thomasgun esq · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 17:47:49 pm

Hi all,

Re the post/scan below

I will add this and see if we get a reply ,

It certainly looks a bit different and I`m sure some one MAY comment.

Regards

C . P .

I have a similar roo to C.P's could this also be a variant to the AustBalia flaw. Also what would be a ballpark estimate for this flaw on cover and how do you work the figure out??

Kindest regards

Thomas

PeterS · **Posted:** Fri Apr 29, 2011 07:41:47 am

Just look at the listing of other minor varieties in ACSC and apply a similar value, is my suggestion.


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