WATERMARKS

WATERMARKS

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Papers.

Watermarks and papers can be the difficult to grasp area of the 1d KGV. For the 1d Violet and Green printings, the watermark changes are relatively straightforward. For the 1d red however, the single watermark appeared in distinctly different papers. Along with shades, paper usage was dictated by war conditions. Whatever was available at the time. Since these paper and watermark variations were used on several denominations, a more complete description is given in a separate section.

The following papers appear on the 1d KGV

Period	Watermark	Paper	Plates
1914-16	Single	Smooth.	All
1916	Single	Rough	Right
1917	Single	Smooth	Right
1917	Single	Rough	All
1918	Single	Smooth	All
1918	Single	Rough	Left
1918	Single	‘war savings’	Die3 plate
1918	Large	‘experimental’.	Right
1920-22	Single	Smooth	Right
1923	Single.	1d Violet	Right
1924	Single.	1d Green	Right
1924	Large	1d Green	Right
1924	Unwatermarked	1d Green	Right
1926	Small Multiple	1d Green	Right
1928	Small Multiple	1d Green	all
1931	CA	1d Green	all

This table hopefully illustrates some interesting characteristics.

	Rough and smooth papers were concurrent during their period of use from 1916 to 1918, ‘the war years’.
	The die3 plate was a use-up issue of no longer need end-of-war, war savings paper.
	A paper shortage occurred in 1924. The 1d green used up residue stock of Large Multiple, followed by emergency unwatermarked paper.
	The left plates were retired in 1918 due to rusted cliches, and did not re-appear for a decade until Ash repaired them with substituted cliches.

Single watermark. Note that the so called single watermark paper as used on KGV is the 2^nd watermark paper as used on the Kangaroos due to wartime shortages.

Papers varied between thin, thick, semi-transparent, semi surface, etc. But these are varieties of the specific paper, rather than clear distinctions between types in this table.