George 5th Ceylon Perfin Error .

Here I have a George 5th ceylon 25c with an uncompleted upside down back to front (CAVE) H.W CAVE & CO LTD perfin stamp.

Hi 241079, I myself have about 20 of these type errors. I'm wondering if these type perfins are the first run they did setting up the machine. I took one damaged stamp that was like this but I couldn't get the holes punched out. I destroyed the stamp dooing it.. Keith

I read somewhere that they had a problem with the machines so they turned back to the overprints.

Hi

This is not uncommon. It all depended on how the sheets of stamps were fed in to the perforating machine.

You can find the same format with Canada and some of the British colonial official stamps. The O.H.M.S. can be found up-right, upside-down and sideways etc. This is the same for the CAVE perfins as well. They were the largest bookstore in Ceylon at one time. The same company also had overprints and underprints to protect their stamps.

Hope this helps

Chimo

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