Great Britain : On Steiner Pages.

Nigel, you are good to have around.
I seem to be thanking you every day.

I did note the extra pin puncture on the Ampersand (very unusual) hence my "guess" ...added Waifs and Strays to my database

Gallimaufry.
Tall tales and true, stamps from down the side of the couch.

Registration Label : Keighly



British Stamp Hinges, where "Peerless" and "Tasteless" appear in the same breath.



Auxilliary Marking : Packet Boat PAQUEBOT With a poem from Rudyard............


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More Gallimaufry.

Mutilated Stationery. Postcard or Reply Paid card.
Halfpenny letterpress green stamp indicia.
January 1901 Brightmore type "2b"

What in Dickens is the German? text doing on the card Private printing? Is it in fact German?

Postmark : Mayfield (new discovery posted before) K44 Duplex

Unknown Perfin H 11pins
Sc#127 Halfpenny KE7


Pmk Dubus Type 9C (or similar my example is squatter and with periods after letters and numbers)
EC = East Central London.

Only H perfins I know.

Finger in the tobacco-infused air of my kitchen ... City firm? Maybe Hambro's Bank? Back to Rosie Lee now.

Cheers Geoff,
enjoy your tea, a nice Iced Vo Vo would pique the palate.

No image available, Catalogue number H (H0010.18) Hambros Bank Ltd, Bishopsgate, London EC
Nothing in Sloper's records

Hi Rod,

In your H perfin, what is the height of the H in mm?

My catalogue has listings for 11-pin "H" for heights of 5.5, 8 and 9mm.

The Vo Vo is a very 1950s-like creation, by the look of it. Not sure what they were branded as here. Too much coconut for me, though.

Geoff and Rod,

I had never heard nor seen a Vo Vo until I looked for it just now.

They do look quite tasty!

I vaguely remember similar biscuits with the coconut without the red stripe. I think they may have been pink or yellow but I'm not sure.

The halfpenny blue-green cut-out appears to be from a post office issue postcard.

Huggins & Baker have this as a Type II die and only Type I was used as a stamped to order die.

They use the number of arches and the shapes of the triangles in the top corners to distinguish the three dies (I, II, III) but their pictures in turn match the differences in the three profiles shown (a, b, c) by Rod.

I think the printing on the back is in English. I guess the back was printed on a stack of regular postcards.

Hi Nigel,
the red stripe is Strawberry fondant, the yellow I recall, but was a cheaper biscuit recipe. There is only one VoVo, yet another Aussie legend sold overseas (now US)

The 11 pin "H" is 5 mm wide by 9 mm high ..Thanks.

Thanks for the Stationery update also.

Thanks for the VoVo info. I can imagine they go very well with a cup of tea.

My catalogue has no entries near the right date for your H perfin. :(

However, one 5.5 mm 11-pin "H" perfin was in use around 1965, and two others were used 1935-1945.

The 1935-1945 users were:

- Hentham's Institution for the Blind, Manchester

- Horlicks Ltd, Slough, Bucks

The 1965 user was;

- R Hood, Haggie & Son Ltd, Newcastle & Liverpool

As well as being used at different times, none of these fits with a London EC location.

I guess this is one of the many dies or users that were still unidentified when the catalogue was issued.

At that time (1988) just under 8,200 patterns had been identified out of around 22,900 GB perfins.

By the way, the catalogue lists 26 different users for 10-pin "H" perfin and all are 4.5mm in height!

Cheers Nigel.. adding them to my database.

If you think it worthwhile to send my example to the UK Perfin society for their records, please supply an appropriate link, and I shall do so.
Every grain of sand, builds the sandcastle.

Sc#237 1938 PERFIN H, 11 pin 6mm tall. (measured from outside of punctures, top to bottom)

Pmk. Could be Sussex.




Revenue Barefoot#121 1902 Foreign Bill. CV 20c



Postal School Training Stamps. More arrived.

The reluctant King,
Sc# 240 PERFIN L / P 6-8 pins (Unknown)
Only LP I have is "Ladies Pictorial" The Strand London.



New Discovery.
Oakham Pmk 1867 (Earliest Oakham Pmk by 32 years)
1d QV DC-CD Plate 89
Handwritten "4" in the CDS



Oakham Buttercross.
I recall playing under one of these, as a nipper.

Stumped.
Stationery Queen Victoria 1d Pink on dark brownish stiffish paper.
Crisp Die impression, not dated, no silk thread.
Base of Bust "S3" or "SS" ?
Bun type D

I think it may be an Official Envelope as STO (Stamped to Order) envelopes.
Brightmore suggests 1d Type B undated as 1866 without a catalogue number.