Upright v inverted watermarks
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:00 pm
Hi All,
Having spent ages writing up my KE8 control panes I finally got around to the booklet panes. I found that I have a complete set, with only two cylinder-number advertisement panes missing, but with half-a-dozen different cylinder-number repeats.
To my astonishment I discovered that every single booklet pane in my collection has the watermark upright. There is not a single pane with inverted watermark. Over the years I collected panes serendipitously, never bothering about watermarks… I concentrated on cylinder number panes because I wanted to be able to identify the perforations with accuracy.
I studied the production of booklet sheets and found that there are always the same number of inverted watermarks as there are upright watermarks. No surprise there for booklet collectors, but the next surprise for me has been to find that SG Specialized Four Kings shows a significant price difference between panes according to watermark.
Is there really a scarcity difference between regular upright watermarks and inverted ones? Is it a function of collectors' zeal over the decades? Is it true also for KGV and early KGVI? If anybody can enlighten me on this anomaly I'd be most grateful.
If anybody is incidentally interested in swapping the odd KE8 cylinder pane or two I'd be happy to discuss… probably easier off-line (robinrestall@gmail.com).
Best wishes, Robin
Having spent ages writing up my KE8 control panes I finally got around to the booklet panes. I found that I have a complete set, with only two cylinder-number advertisement panes missing, but with half-a-dozen different cylinder-number repeats.
To my astonishment I discovered that every single booklet pane in my collection has the watermark upright. There is not a single pane with inverted watermark. Over the years I collected panes serendipitously, never bothering about watermarks… I concentrated on cylinder number panes because I wanted to be able to identify the perforations with accuracy.
I studied the production of booklet sheets and found that there are always the same number of inverted watermarks as there are upright watermarks. No surprise there for booklet collectors, but the next surprise for me has been to find that SG Specialized Four Kings shows a significant price difference between panes according to watermark.
Is there really a scarcity difference between regular upright watermarks and inverted ones? Is it a function of collectors' zeal over the decades? Is it true also for KGV and early KGVI? If anybody can enlighten me on this anomaly I'd be most grateful.
If anybody is incidentally interested in swapping the odd KE8 cylinder pane or two I'd be happy to discuss… probably easier off-line (robinrestall@gmail.com).
Best wishes, Robin