Is This Hong Kong A Perfin Or Something Else?

It and others of the series(s) come with and without perforations around the value of the stamp. I am not sure why. A curiousity or a security measure but how?

What would these be called? Perforated Inscriptions? Not Insignia. Maybe Initials? Or something else?

It's a security measure for the higher values, but I'm not sure what the correct terminology would be.
Check out the security features in the link below:

http://hongkongpost.com/eng/publica...et/index.htm

Thank you 22crows. I was being lazy but also curious as to the proper terminology for it.

Hi Puzzler,

I just receive a response. Here it is:

Dear Harald,

It is not a security mark, as the perforated 10 is part of the stamp design.

It is considered a perfin by some collectors.

The $20 and $50 stamps of this series also have their values perforated.

Regards,
rodsell@rodsell.com
http://rodsell.com

Best regards from France,
Harald

Welcome to Stamp Community Forum, Harald!



I do not know who gave you this reply, but I'm afraid I cannot agree with their reply. It is a security feature. Hongkong Post even states so in their news release.




While it is a perforation, it is also considered a security perforation/feature. For example, the elliptical perforation at the sides are also considered a security feature.

Kim

I happen to have the $50 on piece, which is where it's staying. I figure these things may disintegrate! It's a lovely piece though....

Thank you all.

Harald, welcome, thank you for the link(s) to nice pages of information.

Perhaps by security the rodsell fellow was thinking private security as usually private commercial perfins are.

Do you know about cancellations in France? If you do look at the end (page 17) of the thread / topic Postmark theme, under Topical collecting and see if you know what the T.SABL. is in the ondule cancel.
https://goscf.com/t/7277&whichpage=17
Thank you!

Jubilee,
It is so nice to see a lot of them all together. Thanks for posting that.
When I soaked that one off it was the only survivor of postal mangling on a parcel of kiloware. If I remember it soaked off OK, you just had to be careful handling it. I did not know at the time about micro printing or micro perforating on them. Should have kept the lot on paper as you did. I think they were all $10 ones.

Harald, your name seems eerily familiar to me, my father was Harland and an Uncle was named Harold. Good things come in threes?

Hi All

Would it be stupid of me to think that these stamps that are perforated right at the face value was also some kind of method to assist those with impaired vision or for the blind (similar to Braille) ???. I notice too that they are not on all of the stamps in the set but apparently on hte higher values only??

Just a thought really.

Chimo

Bujutsu

That is why it is a security feature.

It is unlikely that it was intended in part to assist the blind. If so, it would actually be in Braille and not a physical outline of digits and a slit for the $ sign. Also, it would be embossed.

And yes, there have been a couple of stamps produced with Braille. I don't have a formal list, but off the top of my head...

Brazil was the first, and they have produced at least 2 issues with Braille. Later (in alphabetical, not chronological order) Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, US... That is not a complete list. I faintly recall someone telling me that Israel also issued a stamp in Braille, but I've never verified nor have I seen it.

I'm sure rod222 will have a scan of braille stamps or at the least some information on them. Where are you rod?

I think you can add India, Ireland, Vatican City, to name just a few...last year was the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth, so there were quite a few issues, and I think a number of them had raised dots as part of the design.

I can't recollect an Australian braille stamp (but maybe I'm just having a Senior's moment here).
Australia Post released a Vision Australia PPE (that's Postage Paid Envelope) in late 2008 for 200 years of Louis Braille. That had his name in braille on the front of the envelope.
(ASB no.295, N/D 2008, p.18 - if Rodney would like to show it.)

I should clarify my inclusion of Australia. The Braille wasn't actually on the postage stamp, but in the gutter between the stamps.

Issued July 13, 1995.

Rod might be busy, so I will upload what I believe is the first Braille postage stamp issued by Brazil on August 7, 1974. Below that is another Braille stamp issued by Brazil on November 20, 1979.





These are pilfered pics, of course!

k

Well, now we have hijacked Puzzler's thread on Perfins

Firstly, khj that is the first time I have seen Braille in
the gutter of Aussie, a first for me.
Those other two minisheets are firsts also, prime targets for my purloining.

Here is another dedicated page from the late Mette Heindorff,
who did such marvelous work , a few images missing.

http://heindorffhus.motivsamler.dk/...raille01.htm

Now I'll go look for 22 crows Pre Paid Envelope