Show Us Your Perfins....

Here is an inverted Canadian Pacific Perfin on a 1941 cover

Nice cover! Thanks for sharing

I have noticed a lot of you are making album pages. They are all nicely done. The one problem that may come up in the future is that when you start getting a LOT of perfins (if the interest is keen enough) there may be a problem when you figure out you need to start sorting them by alphabetical order. Then, you are going to realize that there are various patterns that are the same looking, but vary by only 1/2 mm in one dot spacing?

I use cabinet size metal drawers to store my perfins. You can put data on a recipe card, and put the stamp in a glassine envelope, attach to card and file. I do break them down by countrry, then alphabetical order, then catalog number .

If you are specializing in any country, I would recommend you get that particular countries master listing, whether a physical catalog (for the bigger countries) or a internet print list (for the smaller ones).

Further, there is a Canada album, but it has been out of print for a while. There is a GB catalog, a German catalog, and a US catalog. The US catalog is not cheap (nor are the others) but it can be used as a stamp album, as looking at an open page shows a description page to the left and a photo page to the right. Stamps can be mounted in the book, just like any other stamp album.It iws also updated as corrections occur.

If you want I will take some jpegs of my drawers (stamp kind) for you, but you seen one drawer, you have seen them all.

Just thought I would share....

Great resource

http://www.angelfire.com/pr/perfins...s/links.html

http://www.perfins.org/?page_id=13

The one above is on it's way to one of our esteemed members.

Here is another German perfin. I don't normally collect Perfins but I do "save" them. I saved this one due to the cancel on the stamp itself as it appears to be handwritten. Interesting.

I may have posted these before, but not on this thread, so here it goes ... a couple of perfins I have yet to identify from the UK:

Victoria 194 with Official Service Perfins

I've only recently started taking an interest so what I have may be a bit boring.



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1. Canada 1963-4 Blue QE11 5c with
CNR Canadian National Railways ........the C has a missing punch hole at the lower end http://www.rpsc.org/Library/perfins...fficials.htm

> Type V, Montréal, Québec
> First Issue: 1922
> Last Issue: 1972

2.Canada 1963-4 4c Red QE11 with
CPR Canadian Pacific Railway Co
The stamping is off centre - the CP is on the left and the R is coming in on the right.

3. Canada 1963-4 Blue QE11 5c with
PS (Province of Saskatchewan) the S has a lightly punched pin hole on the top and the paper which is still hanging in.

4. Canada 1955,10c Eskimo & Kayak,Violet-Brown postmark 1960 with
PS (Province of Saskatchewan) the S's and P are missing a few punch holes

5. GB 1887-1900SG 201 Queen Victoria 2½d. purple on blue with
L D & Co
Query re L D & Co - can anyone help

You may wish to add your GB Perfin to the database here...

https://goscf.com/t/20188&whichpage=5

This perfin I understand to be quite rare.

Perhaps 2.FHW,1. and known to have been used only from Altona (Elbe) in 1915

I purchased it unknowingly on a German Cartoon Postcard circa 1908.

Those with knowledge please have a look and tell me what you know re rarity/value/etc

This perfin appears to be "F.H./W.G." used in Hamburg.

De La Rue Perfin.