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If I remember correctly there were three different allocations for Victorian numerals.
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The first one is TPO which stands for Travelling Post Office, ie: a railway cancel.
The second one is Roman numerals, so 1211, but again, fairdinkumstamps will hopefully confirm.
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The MCC 11 (1211) is Nhill and looks like the second duplex which is not rated. |
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Hi folks, You have been so good I thought I would start here. Can anyone give me advice as to where to start looking for KGV help. Almost the first stamp I looked at was weird. It's a penny red, Die 2 but is perforated SO not OS.  |
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Hi Boreraig,
I think these stamps were folded along the perforation lines so that some were punched OS at the same time. This would result in some like yours.
Can anyone confirm?
Wouldn't this give us normal, inverted, reversed, and inverted reversed punctures? |
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I don't recall ever seeing any. I'll check my database. I see no reference. OS Official Punctures Small OS Introduced late 1913 12 hole "O" 11 Hole "S" 8.5 x 15.5mm All stamps 1913 to 1933 all punctured thus No reference to Puncture varieties. I agree Bobby, if folded, then this type of variety would exist. Maybe Brusden White elaborates?  |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/28/2023 10:03 pm |
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A small amount of Canberra Commemoratives and the 3d Airmail were punctured with the 12 holes.
(For use of Parliamentarians for the opening of Parliament in 1927)
Bib: Tony Pollard 2008-2017
Note: There are "OS" punctured stamps from 1933
(OS without "NSW") (Asymetrical OS over NSW )
However the punctures are slanted (italicised) |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/28/2023 10:17 pm |
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Can someone please give me some background to numeric cancellations. I have many 2's. At least 4 different. Did the cancels just differ over time when an old machine was replaced? There were many Geelong hammers, simply metal heads on wooden handles that wore out and were replaced from time-to-time. Geelong is my home town, these are examples I hold of the various Geelong cancels. 
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OS Puncture. The only other (Long shot) is the OS NSW Hybrid It is the only other 11 pin "S"
Bib: Australian Official Perfins Roy Gault with ackn to David Andersen and John Mathews  |
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I take from the note in Gibbons that the 11-pin "S" has to have the "NSW" as well?
The "OS" with a 12-pin "S" is NSW state service. |
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The one thing I did overlook with Boreraig's stamp is that the OS may be forged. |
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