Perfins Collection

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r3-c6 Central Railroad Company of New Jersey

I use Unitrade Flexo-Grip" Crystal Clear pages to mount my Perfins. Preferring the 8 strips per page.

Using these 'clear' sheets I can see both the front and back of the perfin stamp. I place a black page between each clear page to really make the perfins pop.

i think you have us all looking at our perfins.
i know nothing about them are some more rare than others?

i have a few that I found but think I have more

Checking an earlier post to this topic, Row 2, Stamp #1 looks like General Electric. Row 2, Stamp #2 you may never figure out, as I'm told that some of these obscure looking perfins were caused by mispunched perfins due to faulty, damaged or dirty equipment (I have several similar ones, too.)

Not sure of any on Row 1, however, #4 (IHC) could be International Harvester Company (just a guess on my part.)

This is International Harvester

I don't wish to appear as if I just crawled out from under a rock but I envisioned turning over all of those stamps by hand. Are you saying that by clicking a button Paint can take these face-down stamps and show you an image of the reverse side?

No, it just flips them left for right or top for bottom of your picture.

Cynical,
Perfin patterns are usually normal viewed from the front and mirror image on the back. Flipping the images shows the back in "normal" rather than mirror

as viewed from back


flipped

Any ideas as to why so many were used by the railways? I think I've maybe - one? Not something I've previously considered.

Sometimes their businesses were spread out over a vast distance so without computers they needed to communicate to keep the stock cars (and others) rolling and keeping track of making money.

You would have thought that they wouldn't have had to pay for transporting their own mail back and forth but to customers shipping and receiving, invoices had to be sent out and sales made. Everything that couldn't move by ship or horse moved by train. That's a lot of traffic.

maybe if you flip and invert colors it may be more easy to see

I like the inverted colours. Nice idea.

Third Row #1 could be Continental Can Company. The largest producer of metal cans for beverages, food products etc.

JamesA46: Thanks for the lead on the Continental Can Company. It is very likely the answer to that perfin, as it's on a Chicago precancel from the 1922-25 regular issue, during which time CCC had a heavy presence in the Chicago area.

oh my goodness
it has been years since I heard that name continental can company.
they used to have a branch of that company in my hometown years ago