German Perfin Catalog

thank you very much

Postmaster: query from Filipo...

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Postmaster.
Fabulous knowledge base.........

I have checked the 5 pages. Some more.

These are in transit in the mail.
HB / F (Pmk HALLE)
U (serrifed) = solved in this thread.
OSR
RW (Pmk Berlin)

Thank you.

Rod,

Here you go:

HB/F is Habämfa Bakery Machine Factory, Halle, 1923-1935.



OSR is the Berlin or Charlottenburg offices of Osram, 1922-1944.



R.W. can be one of many, but based on the pin positions and size, probably Richard Weckmann, merchandise agent, Berlin, 1909-1938.

Thank you Postmaster.

Rough and ready, but after 6-7 pages of them, starts to look cool.

Looking good, Rod. Always like to see folks sharing their German stuff.

I you are still there, could I ask you to have a look for German perfin B.L.A., please. My great -aunt Nellie unloaded bagfuls of stamps on me when I was 12 or so; most of them form the basis of my GB and Australia collection, but only now in retirement have I got round to sorting the "foreign" ones. I find stamps of Finland, Netherlands, France, Belgium from around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, and there are half a dozen of these German 1902 issue, all 25 pfennig, with the perfin B.L.A. She was born in 1885 in Australia, came to England in her twenties so these stamps date from her arrival in England.
Thanks for your help.
Richard

If I'm reading the date correctly, it's probably Berliner Lokalanzeiger (an advertising gazette in Berlin).

Berlin 68 SW post office was located at 30 Lindenstrasse, if that helps.

Thank you both. Wikipedia says Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger was a major daily newspaper in Berlin, located as you say in Lindenstrasse, between about 1880 and end of WW2. I have no idea why she should have got mail from a German newspaper office, and I suspect I never will. All the GB and Australian stamps concur with dates that I know family were variously in England, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, but these European stamps are a mystery. As far as I know there were some relatives in Sweden but nowhere else in Europe.
Richard

Unknown.
Perfin EB Erf??
Perfin OE/V Berlin S (or Berlin 6) 1920

Rod,

Your EB perfin is one of these two (since I know you use these in your albums, all catalog excerpts open to larger versions):


Ernst Benary was (and still is) a garden seed company.

Ernst Bergmann was (and still is) a hospital.

The cancel is a machine cancel from Erfurt. I don't have access to my Bochmann at the moment, but I'll get you that excerpt when I get home. Here's a full example from StampsX. It translates as "Don't forget to enter street and house number."


The OE/V perfin is this one:


There's no user listed, but the other, closely-related OV/E perfins in the catalog are from Otto Elsner Verlagsgesellschaft, a magazine publisher in Berlin.

Postmaster,
thank you very much indeed, quality information as usual.




To students of Perfins, The listed OV / E is 10:10:9 Punctures.
Mine shown is 10:11:9 slightly different, but possibly another machine from the same company.

Oops. My bad, I had counted what I thought a blind puncture.

Rod,

WRT the EB perfin, now that I look at it again, it's probably the first one. That stamp wasn't issued until 1932. Here's the same catalog entry with the incorrect listing removed.