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Ross, my memory is not all that good, except that I remember Alan Finlay as an old man (in his late eighties?) in the mid 60's when I attended TPS meetings with my parents. I seem to remember he was a specialist in the 'roos, so I suspect his trophy was for Australian philately. I'll see if I have a...

And another use of a Tasmanian stamp image, this time from our esteemed TPS of yore.
G.A.Finlay Competition Second prize certificate.
The text at the bottom reads: "JWS 615553"
Printed on card about 0.4mm thick, according to my Digital calipers.

Don't know if a business card qualifies, but here's a scan of Tom Petterd's.
Judging by the phone number it's quite old.

Mark, I have only just caught up with the new posts in this thread. How exciting to see that you have caught up with "the missing 6d keyplate" with the small Specimen overprint! I suspect this is the one that used to be in Lew Viney's collection. I seem to remember reading that the Tinsley collectio...

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I had been reading this the other day, then I was looking at EBay last night and look what turned up! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Very-Rare-Not-Issued-1858-Tasmania-6d-Lilac-Imperforate-LARGE-STAR-Wmk-Mint-Cond-/261107083475?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid...

Sorry Ross, can't help with the rarity of the double perfs, but here is a nice double perf of the 10 Wmk issue.

Ross,
I'd have to assume they are fairly common. Here are the only two of this reprint I have in my collection, and both have similar, but smaller, flaws similar to your scan.

In case the link to the auction expires, let me record that this sheet realized $4,200.

Andrew, excuse me for pointing this out, but you may have misread the original post from Ross where he described the paper as thin card , rather than thin paper. The card it's printed on is fairly similar to the thickness of a typical printed photograph, probably about half as thick as a postcard. A...

It appears that forgeries of the halfpenny surcharge are not confined to the rare sideways-al variety. I found this amongst a lot of 1d sidefaces a few years ago.

Bill, a very interesting post to me! I might mention that I have no knowledge of the publication you mention (I have been away from Tasmanian philately for some time) but I do know that "my" set was never photographed, seen or otherwise displayed during the time I had it, except that I once showed i...

Don't know whether it's still in their collections somewhere, but I remember a specimen sheet being displayed in the Hobart Museum in the 1960's. Anyone got any contacts there?

Thanks Ross, John and Dave. I'm sure I will read much of interest and hope I can make meaningful contributions to the body of knowledge on this subject, despite my long absence from the scene.

Cheers

John J

Nice proofs, Dave! I know I saw some of these years ago in an exhibition and I'm sure I made some notes about their origin - hopefully I still have them. Don't know just how scarce some of these (once owned by me) below are - just wanted to share with you. http://jjantzen.customer.netspace.net.au/5s...

As I see it, and why I came to group the stamps in such a manner was that there are: 2 different 3d, 2 different 1/-, 2 different 2/6 and 2 different 10/-. In each case the second example of the denomination is a postal fiscal, whereas the first example is a postage stamp. Therefore I thought, maybe...

Yesterday I did a little thinking about the unusual specimen set, and looking at them I found an interesting sequence. There is only one of each denomination in postage and revenue stamps. Therefore it seems that there may be as many as 5 stamps missing. Considering the number of options for each d...

Perhaps jorija could state in detail what separations they are as per Gibbons. Certainly - sorry - I have now edited my post to include these details. For some reason an edit I did to include them yesterday failed to save. Didn't realize this until your comments. Having a few issues with my Interne...

Nothing has happened to these stamps in the past 40+ years except for some minor "conservation" by removing them from proximity to foxed paper. The page fragment with the 1/2d Keyplate on it was torn through the corner of the stamp, which is why it is missing a corner. The torn portion was not prese...

The small specimens were not sourced locally. The lot, which included complete specimen sets of the current postage stamps of WA, SA, Vic, NSW and Qld, came from Sydney in the mid 1960s. I had these in my possession too, for a week or so, but the price asked was too high and I only collected Tasmani...

Here are some from my collection. All now sold, unfortunately. The pairs are,I believe, what SG describes as the "Rough-Punctured roulette about 8, by J. Walch, at Hobart 1864" SG 51 (1d) and SG 52 (4d) The 1d is, I believe, what SG describes as "Serrated perf 19" SG 79. Hope the cat numbers are cor...

Thanks John, for your comments. I will try to track down the article in The Courier , as it would be interesting to read what you wrote. I don't know what happened to Lew's collection after his passing, but the "odd stamp" mentioned probably was still in it at that time. I sold the main "set" in Feb...

Hello everybody, I'm returning to TPS after a long absence, which started in 1974 when I was posted to teach in Queenstown, and hence couldn't take an active part in TPS any more. A stamp collector from the age of 10, I attended meetings in the old room in Liverpool St with my father, Kjeld, who was...

I acquired these about 45 years ago. They were part of a collection which included specimens from the other states, which I had an option on but chose not to buy (money's scarce when you're 15!) I had never seen any more except that in the late 70's I remember bidding at a TPS "sale by tender (sic)"...