Ian's Collection

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Perforation and Watermark Varieties - Quails and Partridges 2001

One of the most challenging issues on collecting perforation and watermark varieties is the stamp issue of Quials and Partridges released on January 22, 2001. I still have not been able to figure out how many types of perforation and watermark for each of the three denominations. SG catalogue does not seem to be helpful as it is still in the middle of figuring out the actual number of varieties. I am listing below those perforation and watermark varieties that possessed by me (I think I have spare copies for these varieties). I am very happy to exchange with anyone for those varieties not in my collection.

in my collection (30 sen):
P13.75 sideway down watermark
P13.75 no watermark
P14.25 no watermark

in my collection (50 sen):
P13.75 sideway down watermark
P13.75 no watermark
P14.25 no watermark

in my collection (RM1):
P13.75 no watermark
P14.25 no watermark

Perforation Variety - Waterlilies 2002

The occurrence of perforation varieties in modern Malaysian stamps is tremendously frequent. I'm going to depict one weird perforation variety in the miniature sheet (MS) of waterlilies (aquatic plant issue) released on May 11, 2002. I bought a few copies of this MS during the time of release. A few years later, I played with the MS to find perforation and watermark varieties. To my surprise, these waterlily MS have weird perforation varieties (two types). The difference in perforation occurs on the horizontal perforation of the RM2 stamp in the MS. Both the varieties have P12 perforation for the RM2 stamp. At a closer look, however, one MS has slightly larger size of RM2 stamp than the other one resulting from the additional one pin hole on the larger one. The smaller RM2 has 25 pin holes on the horizontal perforation whereas the larger one has 26. I'm not sure which one is less common. Anyway, I'm delighted to be informed which one you posses.

the MS containing two stamps with denominations RM1 (Eichhornia crassipes) and RM2 (Nymphaea pubescens)

the top one with 25 pin holes and the bottom one with 26 pin holes

Monday, 27 April 2009

Perforation Variety - Beads of Sarawak 2001

On Feberuary 17, 2001, Pos Malaysia released a set of four stamps on topic of Beads of Sarawak and Sabah. The stamps were printed in a format block-of-4 with 100 stamps forming a sheet. Two types of perforation were recorded - P13.5 (to be precise P13.75x13.5) and P14x14.5 (to be precise P14.25x14.75). I have got no idea which one is less common, but SG catalogue gives P13.5 a higher price.

P13.5

P14x14.5

Sunday, 26 April 2009

Stamp Design - Mt. Kinabalu

One of the four stamps issued on April 9, 2009 depicts Mt. Kinablu. I managed to find the image source for designing this stamp. It is actually derived from the image of a postcard...........