Identifying GB Perfins

Can anyone help me with identifying these GB perfins?






Greetings, Damian

Perhaps move this to:

https://goscf.com/t/20188 ... GB Official Perfins identified here

Don't worry about the "official" ... they seem to have strayed.

ED&Co is likely "Edward Dunlop and Company". I've seen this perfin all in one line as well.

I believe "ED/&Co." is Elder Dempster & Co. Ltd of Liverpool.

I don't have Edward Dunlop & Co. listed in my catalogue (or I just can't see it!) but it's a 1998 edition and many additional perfins have been identified since.

I also don't see any "E/CN" entries but I suggest it's an inverted "CN/E" (as stamp blocks were usually folded and then hand punched to create perfins so inverted, reversed, and inverted and reversed perfins are common.)

"CE/N" is Comptoir Nationale d'Escompte de Paris, London.

"L/EC" is either London Executive Council, National Health Service or Lindsey Education Committee, Lincolnshire. Both perfins have the same size and the same pin counts.

"HB" is Hunter, Barr & Co. Ltd, 57 Queen St, Glasgow.

Thanks for the correction, Nigel. The ED&Co perfin I saw was one line rather than two-line and I now realize it was on an Australian cover. My bad.

No problem Kim.

Elder Dempster was one of the great Liverpool shipping lines and I just found these two pages:

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ElderD-1.html

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ElderD-2.html

which show picture postcards of many of their ships.

Excellent links, Nigel! Thanks!

Thank you both for your help! Definitely more than I expected!