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I came across the LH stamp today and cannot quite work this one out. According to the literature I have (SG, Brusden White, Robson Lowe and Lancaster), there was only one printing of the Crown over A electro of the 3d on the standardly-used paper and the colour difference between these stamps is vas...

I have been on the hunt for the SG261 1d Pictorial Cr/A on Thin paper - perf T. It exists with pattern 7x6 and 7x7, I believe.

If anyone has a version to sell, please contact me. Many thanks.

Just a small update to our EKU dates for T perfin patterns. If anyone has found some earlier dates in the meantime, please let me know them, as I can keep updating them here. They will be published sometime hopefully this year online when the final stage of our Official States Perfin project is fini...

HI Ross, Thanks for the reply - yes, the standard methodology for producing these T perfins from the normal usage of the old line 12 machine does not fit well with this particular stamp, I do agree. I have seen other perfins which have a reasonably large hole displacement from being 'in line' with e...

Something potentially controversial.... I came across this wonkey looking donkey on a 1/2d tablet yesterday and had consigned it to the forgeries section since I don't think a 5x3 pattern has been seen yet (at least not in any publication I have seen) and the horizontal line is so out of whack , but...

Hi Jeff, I just saw your post from 7 years ago, after I had added a new post of my own about the Crown Over A watermarked paper / papers that were used at the time. I have found one 3d Litho Cr/A in particular that seems very thin compared to the majority of the others (and it is not the 1912 versio...

I am busy closely itemising a selection of 3d Pictorials for our States perfin project and came across a stamp which has me flummoxed. It is an SG246, Crown over A litho printing, but on seemingly completely different, whiter paper than its normal counterparts. This one, by touch, seems thinner in c...

I just found a reference to these dates on a stamp forum and these dates were taken from W.E. Tinsley, "Tasmania Stamps and Postal History" A book which I borrowed once a long time ago from Philas at the dawn of the project. I must have changed a couple of the dates already when I was sifting throug...

That's excellent news, John - many thanks. I suspected as much with the T perfins, but really good to know for sure. It is late now but I shall message you over the weekend via the contact link and we can hopefully touch base.
Cheers
Jerry

Hello Roger, I somehow missed this thread before I posted about my own request on the board just now in the perfins section, but I am specifically on the hunt for any of these thin paper issues perforated OS or T. Do you have any of these amongst your mass of thin paper examples? This info will form...

I would greatly appreciate anyone's help to learn if these late 1912 printings of the 1d and 3d pictorials on the Thin Crown Over A paper existed punctured OS and T respectively.... if so, scans would naturally be wonderful if you have them. Brusden White do not mention them as existing with OS punc...

Many thanks, it was an enjoyable task, Jerry - hope it will be of good use to people down the track. Looking forward to seeing any inputs from TPS members. On another note, when I was starting out on our separate Australian States Official Perfin project a few years back, I came across a reference p...

A number of people are looking closely at the following 4 specific stamps and their relative OS puncture positions for part of a research project into Australian States Official Perfins and we are in real need of high-res scans (1200dpi if possible please) of any multiples for any of these 4 stamps ...

Dear All,

Here is the article from the last PCNZA bulletin on the Melbourne OS Type F for you to view - comments most welcome, naturally.

Cheers
Jerry A.

We received this wonderful scan recently, again reproduced here with permission from the National Philatelic Collection, Australia Post, of a full block of the 10d Tablet punctured OS. Thought you all might like to see it....an article in an upcoming PCNZA bulletin will hopefully follow about the OS...

Good to hear your thoughts, Jerry - many thanks. We think the first 2 scenarios are most likely as well, but would be very interested to read your article. Myself and David Coath, the President of the PCNZA, are currently in the throes of analysing closely the machines that were used in Melbourne to...

Here are a couple more closeup scans, again reproduced here with permission from the National Philatelic Collection, Australia Post :

I wanted to post a few scans that we received for our ongoing project on Official State Perfins, Reproduced here with permission from the National Philatelic Collection, Australia Post, which will give you all an exact location of the missing pin variety in the perf OS on the Tasmanian Pictorials. A...

Hello all, Does anyone have large blocks or multiples of OS perfins on any of the De La Rue Tasmanian tablets that they may be able to scan in for us for our perfin project? We have recently come across a block and some vertical strips of DLR Western Australia issues from the Western Australian Muse...

Good morning all,

I have been updating other sightings of this 4x5 T perfin, and someone else has seen it on a 1/- TAS Perf 14 too. Can anyone comment on whether they have seen this pattern on these tablets too, or is there a big question mark about their genuineness?

Many thanks for your help.

This guy is a serial fraudster with a track history as long as your arm. Stampboards has a whole thread dedicated to him...

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=59680

A dangerous, but seemingly uneducated forger.

No worries, Ross - this is the closest my scanner can do and it is 1200dpi

OS 2d V Cr OS p11 OS sideways.jpg Here is another I hadn't seen before, so again, all comments welcome. The OS patterns line up beautifully with multiple examples of the normal horizontal OS of the P12.4's, so no reason to doubt the OS puncture itself, I don't think. Does anyone else have this stam...

Just purchased this one from the US, since I haven't ever seen one before. It would be very interesting to hear everyone's opinion on it....hope it's the real deal ! No real warning signs, I don't think, but I am not a Tasmanian expert, so all comments are gratefully welcomed. T perfin - pattern 4x5...

Hi Jeff, Here is a scan of the 1/2 V over Cr Perf 11 for you - I got excited for a minute and thought I'd found one of the 6d's, but wrong type. Anyway, hope this helps....I have an absolute stack of T perfins from a research project so if you have anything else missing, please let me know. Cheers.....