6d Blue

6d Blue

6d Blue
18th January 1914 to June 1932

Usage: Intrastate Parcels.

Summary:

Standard 2 plate using Die2

initially released 240-on

Substituted cliche die 2a in later 1^st watermark printings and onwards.

Standard inserted monograms on 3^rd watermark.

Substituted Harrison CA monograms

Replaced monograms with Harrison N/MP imprint

New Die2B Harrison plates in 1921 with imprint and no jubilee lines.

	Colour change 1923
	Harrison imprint
	Mullet imprint
	Ash imprints N/N and N/A (upper / lower)

1928 ash removed broken leg variety amongst others and substituted cliche die 2B+

1929 small watermark

1932 CA watermark,

Eventually replaced by the 6d Typographed Kookaburra June 1932.

The 6d represents the beginning of a more complex series of denominations. The reason being they were never replaced by KGV and were printed and issued contemporaneously with the KGV. A such, they had a long life undergoing color and watermark changes. Much more so than their lower denomination cousins.

As noted in the forward to this volume, to appreciate the full extent of the varieties in both KGV and Roo, neither should be studied in isolation from each other. KGV & Roo are a single unified series of postage stamps. The printers never differentiated between them. When it came time to print a fresh set of 6d values, the print records refer to ‘the 6d plate’. Whether it was KGV or Roo was immaterial.