New Zealand: Chalon Head Reprints & Proofs

Hi all
I do have a 3d plate proof pair.
Cheers Grant

The British Library had a hack and so there electronic system does not work so I can't search for the images online. Have to go in person.

The Royal Philatelic Collection by Sir John Wilson US$150.00 +$20 postage

Hi Mark
Any chance of a better image.
Thanks Grant

Stanley Gibbons Christmas Card 1954 Printed by Perkins, Bacon Ltd

Just received today, a beautifully engraved card. The Two Pence Chalon Head is printed on thick card and hinged to the Christmas card. The card hasn't aged well but it doesn't seem to come up for sale very often.

Daniel

Hi Mark
Is it actually a red colour ?
Regards Grant

Something of interest

Hi Grant,

Did anyone take up your offer of the Arrant full sheet? If it's still available I would love to purchase from you.

Regards,

Neil

Hi Neil
It is all yours if you are still keen.
Do you have my email ?
Regards Grant

A quick guess without comparing with mine.


Block of 4 1d is a plate proof. No wear so it has to be.

Block of 4 2d a plate proof, plate I because of the narrow vertical space between the stamps (just checked on my full sheet) and no wear. 

Top 6d and 1s, plate proofs due to paper type

Bottom 1d, Hausburg on paper (or whatever it should be called) because of the fibers in the paper.

If there were only 6 sheets of non 2d Plate II Hausburgs on card produced, there is supposed to be a sheet of each in the royal collection and 3 sheets of each in the British Library (which hopefully I will confirm in July, can't visit the royal collection because it is closed for renovations, the royal collection might be one of the sheets from the library), you have blocks of 60, there are also blocks of 108 of the 3d-1s, I did see someone had full sheets of them all. So there are very few available for collectors.

    
 

  

Thanks Mark,

That's really useful.

I also didn't know the non 2d plate II Hausburg's were so scarce.  I have blocks of 60 and 24 (bottom two rows) of each except 1d no bottom two rows.

I don't know if these are useful but I'll scan in the blocks of 60 and post here.

Neil

Here are the bottom 2 rows of 24.  There is a note here from Ken Lynch suggesting only the 2d plate II and the 4d had obvious ridges in the card from the depth of the plates when they printed, leaving an impression.  Something to add to the knowledge bank.

All these blocks and previous blocks of 60 were ex Ken Lynch.

Nice lot of large blocks of the Hausberg Reprints Neil 


I was looking at that last page of reprint singles, above, and thought about the sentence on it that states "These proofs show the extent of wear in each plate at the end of its life".







I was thinking about that and recalled a 6d Chalon I got in a few weeks ago.
It shows quite a bit of wear and yet the plate still had about 2½ years of printing left in it , yet, the Hausberg example shown above shows a very 'unworn' example!

And the example of the Davies 1864-71 SG122 6d dated JA 14 71 that is clearly quite worn - and with 2½yrs of printing left in the plate before it was retired !




What this tells me is that the statement "These proofs show the extent of wear in each plate at the end of its life" isn't 'quite' accurate.




What this actually shows us is that the examples used are 'representative' of the state of the plate - but that each individual impression of 240 varies in the amount of wear displayed.

So, some impressions of the 6d plate were quite worn, others were not so much.

Two example below of the 6d - dated only a few months apart:




Obviously this thought process of mine also applies to the other plates, but I picked on the 6d as I had an obviously worn example of it in my mind at the time 



Dave

See Grants post on page 2 for the blocks of 108 including 6d