New Zealand: Chalon Re Entries

Lovely examples of that re-entry Grant.
Nice to follow the progression of wear thru' time.

Looking forward to this story being told by you and being added to by others.

I have a few as well and will pull them out over the upcoming weekend.

Nice work 

Dave

Lovely examples again Grant.

That SG110 (the 1d Carmine) is so crisp and vibrant, it must be an early printing of the 1864 SG110 p12.5.

Very nice

Dave

Hi Chris

I guess that Grant is best to explain 'his' use of terminology to us but in the interim I shall give it a go:

With imperf. stamps the area of unprinted stamp between the framelines and the edge of the paper is referred to as 'margin'. So on a 4 sided stamp we are looking for 4 margins. On a triangular stamp (early COGH etc) we are wanting 3 margins. Ideally ones that are clear and full, The wider the better. So that is 'margins'.

With perforated stamps we are concerned with 'centering'. Grant's use of 'gutter' here is in reference to the area between the framelines and the perforations.
NB we do not refer to a perforated Chalon as having margins. That is reserved for the imperfs.

Lesson:
Most early New Zealand Chalons that are perforated are not well centered. The plates that were originally produced were poorly laid (in relation to the impressions) and spacing (particularly on the 1d plate) was indifferent. The impressions on the 1d plate were laid down on a slight angle and spacing was sometimes lacking completely. All of this made the early attempts of perforation of these sheets 'best efforts'. Prior to the Government receiving their first perforating machine (which went into use in June of 1864) perforating was done semi-officially by a postmaster in Dunedin who used a private firm to do this. They perforated the sheets p13. Their employees were paid by the sheet and often perforated multiple sheets at a time to speed the process up. Obviously this method produced some badly mis-perfed stamps (ref. my avatar!). So with perforated Chalons centering is the key. Grants 1d Carmine, above, is a lovely example of a p12.5 nicely centered.

Dave



Note the angle of the design relative to the perforations. There is a lean to the left from bottom to top. This meant that getting a stamp to fall within the perforations was difficult and well centered examples command a premium.

The first plates produced were the 'London' plates comprising the 1d, 2d & 1/-. These plates, the 1d in particular, were created without the later separation of the stamps in mind so much. (Presumably they were thinking only that the stamps would be separated with scissors).

Later plates: 6d, 3d & 4d were laid down with the impressions more thoughtfully spaced between (with separation in mind!).

PPS Only 1 plate for each value was used throughout the Chalon period (1855-1873). With one notable exception - the 2d. A 2nd plate was produced and put into use late 1865 due to the amount of wear on plate 1. SO with the 2d there is a plate 1 and a plate 2. Plate 2 impressions are also much more thoughfully arranged.

To be honest Londonbus, I hadn't really seen the use of 'gutter' per Grants use of it, until now. Rather, I was trying to explain 'his' use of it (plus some bits of history around it).

We'll let Grant explain more ....

Dave

NB 'Gutters' is referred normally as that unprinted area between impressions - ie GB Gutter pairs etc etc. Usually wide. I hadn't seen it used before, either, in relation to Chalons.

Thanks Grant - no those 3 shown above are not mine - I just grabbed a stock image for illustrative purposes.
I will show mine later on.

Here is one of 3 1d R11/3 re-entries that I possess :

SG111a - Provisional imperf (no cert.) unfortunately only 3 margins .... but still a rare beast 



and the others I have:
(excuse the black line on the value tablet of the 1st one - a bit of detritis that I hadn't seen at the time of scanning).



Dave

Today's re-entry is from Row 5, No 9

A faulty impression 0.6mm to the left and 0.2mm high. In both early and late printings there are extra spots of colour in the letters of New Zealand and POSTAGE and in the centre of the nose. Doubling of the upper frame line and lower left frame line is much less obvious.


The image below is a Davies printing on star watermarked paper perf 12.5 ( printed between 1871 and 8173 )

Here is a drawn outline of the 1d R18/5-6. Makes it a bit easier to see the re-entries :



Dave

                                                          SG99 NZ wmk - r16/3



Dave

Dave
Have a close look at the two pence blue in the array of mint Chalons you placed on the other thread; I was told it has a re-entry.

My 100th post, by the way.

It has been a while since anyone posted a re-entry so thought that I would add this cover of mine : 

SG122 6d red-brown on 1867 cover to England with re-entry 17/10





Dave

The following excerpt was copied from the Chalon thread, to here, where it is very appropriate :

Here is a re-entry on the 1/- green - from R1/5

It is up on Delcampe currently at US$1500 !

Quote from the listing " Very rarely found. So much so that it isn't even mentioned in catalogues."

NZ Chalon 1/- re-entry R1/5





Dave

Hi Philip

Here is my copy of what I believe to be 1d R19/3 'doubling of top frame line"



Dave

Yes, A good example of the R17/10 major re-entry on the 6d Mark.
Good find!

Dave