The Australia 1953 3½d Young Farmer's Clubs SG267
Released on 3rd September 1953 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Young Farmers Club. The organisation was founded in New South Wales in 1928.
The stamp features a Jersey Calf and two childen.
These stamps were in sheets of 100 (10 rows of 10) on Unwatermarked paper and perforated 14¾ x 14½. It was also the first recess-printed stamp to be bicoloured (Red-Brown and Green).
This is one listed variety of two known as the "7" shaped flaw under "3" of 1953, which is located at Sh? 6/2. I was lucky enough to find one recently.
I am a confused with the "Sh?" can anyone please clarify this?
A total of 27,279,300 of this stamp were issue, making over 227,000 sheets.
The best known variety on this stamp is a colour shift where the brown vignette must fall outside of the green border.
The SH? indicates that teh sheet that teh variety comes from is unlocated. There were no plate numbers on sheets (as a general rule) at this time and marginal markings (such as lines, dots etc) were the only real way to identify teh indivual sheet a stamp came from.
ReplyDeleteThe stamps were printed in multi-sheet format, before being guillotined into post office sheets.
Peter
Thanks for explaining this Peter, it is really appreciated.
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