The World Of Perfins Great Britain Australia And More

Recent acquisitions included a large Great Britain collection of Great Britain Perfins. I have never dealt with these before and was surprised at the amazing numbers of possibilities! So many Questions. Here is one of many examples. A Registered cover Great Britain 1907. Wm Brandt's & Sons London. First is the color Grey brown or Chocolate brown and green, Secondly is it chalk surface paper and lastly I cannot see the punched dot pattern depicting the initials of the company. Does anyone have any ideas, please

It's WB & Co, as in the sender's name.

More info here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi..._Sons_and_Co

You are so Helpful GeoffHa...Thank you so very much. Any comments on chalk surface or color variety? I read quite a bit of information regarding chalk surface varieties in another forum. This must be a De La Rue !st printing because of the date. The lines are not as sharp, but the paper is smooth with color faint at edges.

Perhaps NSK will chime in on the stamp. I'm in a similar position to you with perfins - I have a bunch of them, which I've roughly sorted, but not really investigated.

https://perfinsoc.org.uk/


Go to the above website. These folks are cataloging all British perfins

Peter

This Perfin Cover is also King Edward VII. I am fairly certain that it is De La Rue printing because of cancel date 1909, it is pale purple and lemon and is chalk surface because of printing skips from chalk powder. It has a Whitechapel London E cancel and the B3420 perfin is correct!

All right Peter... I will go there for sure. Thanks for the reference. Collecting these could be a real challenge. As a young collector. 70 years ago. I was advised to ot collect precancels and /or perfins, by the older stamp folks of that century!!!! LOL Thanks for the URL.

It's definitely a good idea to join the Perfins Club and get the PDF catalog.

Thank you for your posting Tommtomm. I checked out the site, And I am trying to decide whether to join up. I was reading through their auctions and other services. Are you a member? And how many of the Stamp community are members… just curious.

Some GB Perfins, all have same perfin BCB

http://goscf.com/t/80082#727835

Yes, I'm a member there, but I have to admit, that I just joined the club to get the PDF catalog.
So no activity in GB research or so from my side ...

There certainly are more members here, but I don't now who.

I collect perfins worldwide, and started to build up my GB collection one year ago with little preprint cards cut out from over 7.000(!) catalog pages. I'm still stuck at letter D ... it will surely take me years printing, cutting, and sorting ...

http://goscf.com/t/80082#727849

That's not BCB, but CB/B

Company is Cadbury Bros Ltd, Cocoa and Chocolate Mfrs, Bournville,
Birmingham, also Cadbury-Fry, Export Dept, Bournville

Sent mainly from Birmingham, but also Bootle, (Bo)urnville, Cardi(ff),
Farnborough, Kent, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, and
Newcast(le)-on-Tyne

Catalog number could be 0530.02M or one of a few perfin varieties of this company.

Thank you for the info TommTomm, unfortunately the stamps did not come with any chocolate eggs.

Still slowly getting into this area. Decided to go thru all of the German and Great Britain duplicates I had stowed away long before I knew I would look for Perfins. After sorting thru over 1000 stamps I came up with 2 German perfins and about 35 GB. A small and rough collection but a start. Also found two with black lines I must have previously missed. I think someone just posted that they really don't have any duplicates and I agree with that. Always something interesting to look for and pull out. I'm keeping envelopes full of GB duplicates because I never had the time or energy to check watermarks, maybe one day.
Posting the stamps in no particular order, the pictures also contain the 7 stamps I had posted last year. If any perfin looks upside down that is the way it is on the stamp.

Enjoy! I started assembling GB perfins while sorting through duplicates, but decided they weren't for me, and recently sold them on ebay. Didn't make me rich!

The "black lines" are graphite lines. They were a first attempt to use automatic letter facing and sorting machines. The graphite lines were superseded by phosphor bars. For a short period both graphite lines and phosphor bars were used.