This appears to be NS Wales scott 63 but has a perf reading of 11-1/2 X 11 and an unrecognized watermark of about 1/2" high double lined characters of "T 2" . Any help?
I was looking at the Gibbons catalogue and saw nothing as an exact match. On older imperf issues, there are errors with a "2" watermark, presumably for 2 pence stamps. This stamp should have had a "3", but the perfs don't match. For matching perfs, the watermark would be the "NSW" an crown. I also checked into whether the "2" could be a "Z", as with Tasmania, but saw nothing there either.
I have run into where the watermark is not uniform across the sheet of stamps. Sometimes there's a header row across one line of stamps that might read "NEW SOUTH WALES" or the like. Could the "2" be a backwards "S" and it's part of "POST"? I'm just guessing.
UPDATE: I just read at the following link that the marginal inscriptions read "NEW SOUTH WALES POSTAGE", so I suspect that's what it is... the "ST" in "POSTAGE" on a margin-of-sheet stamp.
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This is an approximation of the watermark
I have run into where the watermark is not uniform across the sheet of stamps. Sometimes there's a header row across one line of stamps that might read "NEW SOUTH WALES" or the like. Could the "2" be a backwards "S" and it's part of "POST"? I'm just guessing.
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