New Zealand: Penny Universal - 1901-1908

And this is, I believe, CP G6d with mixed perfs (11 x 14 x 11 & 14 double x 14):

That is a lovely 'Dickie' coil pair Klem.

I don't possess any coils at all - not for the want of trying mind you, as I have bid on some at auction before - but failed :-( lol



Dave

And the 'mixed' perf pair are beauties.

SG284 cat £140 each!

Another nice item.

PS Postmark is of Onewhero - a farming settlement near Pukekohe, just south of Auckland.



Dave

The perf 14 holes are tiny on these. That's probably why they're sometimes missed. 

Also, this example has PO patching, better seen from the back:

I have a few more double and mixed perf varieties I'll post when I have a moment.

Wow. Lucky

Don't you love eBay! lol



Dave

Some examples of G5e with various double/mixed perfs, some PO patched. The top two are also examples of the plate 2, row 10/16 re-entry, a line under the 'N' in 'ONE':

Speaking of perf. varieties, I recently won this small lot of Universals on Trademe.





It cost me a whole NZ$4.00 (@ US$2.50 or GBP£2.00)
This lot contained a couple of nicer items if you know your Universals.

The best of them though is this one:




It is SG290a - 1901 (Dec.) Thin,hard Basted Mills paper wmk.38 (which is the double lined NZ & Star) p11 x 14.

A pleasing find!



Dave

Nice find Clayton.

I have seen it before, on blocks that is, where the reperf has not gone across the entire sheet. I will check my books for that!

And for those wondering, the so-called 'dot' plate is referred to by that name due to these dots found in the LH margin, quite often cut out when the perf holes go right over the top of them!






Dave

That is a very rough p11 there Clayton!

Here are a few other 'Basted Mills' printing :

First row p14
Second row p14 1st 2 pairs + a p11 single used (odd pale shade!)
Third row all p11 x 14 used singles








Dave

And a couple of the 'mixed perf' varieties :

One of each vertical and horizontal fix-ups !





Dave

Beauty! Looks like the horiz P14 went rather askew, can see why this would have needed correction. The stamps to the right must have had the perfs way off.
Was this patched at all, doesn't look like it.
Also interesting with the date stamp at base. I don't recall reading anything about this. Is it something done during printing or maybe a clerical addition after production?

Probably shouldn't get sidetracked on Mt Cooks in a Universal thread.
Cheers
Clayton

Hi Paul

Your Penny Universal is from a booklet pane, like this one shown below:




As you can see, the sides on this pane are imperf.


A whole new plate was made just to print these booklet 'Universals'.

Cheers



Dave

Nice example of a "Booklet" plate issue of the Penny Universal.
There is a great introduction at start of this thread for useful info regarding all the different plates and printings of this stamp.
As well as the imperf sides your stamp clearly shows the other defining features of enlarged and redrawn pearls at top and left and centre.

Clayton

Jumping back to the 0.5d Mt Cook, a very interesting block. The block is probably R9 and 10 No 15,16 & 17 based on the position of the marginal letters. The sheet was probably perforated vertically with the rotary perf 14 machine that had 25 wheels and horizontally with the 11-wheel perf 14 machine. It would seem that about 2/3rds of the way through the horizontal perforating the sheet as skewed causing the misalignment. The correction has been carried out using the 1895 rotary 11 machine with perforating stopped nine stamps in from the right-hand margin. Two other perf 11 machines were available but both were line machines.

A fascinating block and I'm guessing very rare. Mixed perfs of the period would more commonly be the product of the perf 11 line machines correcting perf 14 rotary machine errors.

Philip