July 2010: New Zealand - New Find
June 2010: Western Australia - Value Key Plate
May 2010: Queensland - Imperf
April 2010: Tasmania - Dragon
March 2010: Great Britain - Railway Commission PTPO
February 2010: Kenya - Judicial Type II Overprint
January 2010: New South Wales - Perfins
July 2010 New Zealand
New Find
1870 Die II. Light Violet Blue/Blue small figures
Graphic © Peter Olorenshaw
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June 2010 Western Australia Value Key Plate
Dave Elsmore
Waterlow & Sons value die proof from a set of die proofs to £100, with only two such groups extant. One set from the work books so called ‘dirty set’ the other is known as the ‘clean set’, below is from the clean set. The problem for revenue collectors of Western Australia is, they are up against such well known identities who collect birds on stamps.
A nice ‘birds nest’ prior to the secondary printing of the Swan vignette.
Graphic © Dave Elsmore
May 2010 Queensland
Dave Elsmore
First issue 1866 duty stamp no wmk Imperf. Only Imperf proofs have been recorded. So far this 6d is the only recorded imperf of any value to have been found used.
Graphic © Dave Elsmore
April 2010 3d Dragon from Tasmania
Dave Elsmore
So called Dragon because of the central design, St George engaging in battle with a Dragon.
One of two CHIEF OFFICE / HOBART TOWN cancels recorded on a Dragon from Tasmania, in fact only 6 cancels in total are recorded on Postal & Fiscal issues.
Graphic © Dave Elsmore
March 2010 Great Britain Railway Commission PTPO
Ed Hitchings
Semi-adhesive embossed revenue, issued to the Railway Commissioners in the 1870-80's.
The stamp is not illustrated in any catalogue and, in their book 'Judicial
Stamps of Great Britain and Pre-1922 Ireland' Booth & Akerman describe it
thus.
"The only stamps known are the General Duty 2/6 (die N) embossed on thick
brown-ochre paper under-printed RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS in two lines in
black Roman capitals. They are dated 5th February 1877 and are extremely
rare. Other values may exist."
General Duty 2/6 (die P) dated 19th July 1887. A very scarce item that needs to be added to the listings.
Graphic © Ed Hitchings
February 2010 The Kenya Judicial Type II Overprint
Regis Hoffman
The Kenya Judicial Type II overprint (on the £1 stamp below) is relatively common and found on the pound and shilling values of the Kenya and Uganda postage stamp series. Type I has a thicker font.
It is the smaller Type II overprint found on the cents values that is a relatively new find and scarce.
A proof of the Type II overprints (ex de La Rue archives) are shown below.
The 1c shown below is the discovery copy, and was listed in the 4th edition of the B&H catalogue.
Type II overprint. Graphic © R Hoffman
Overprint proof (ex de La Rue archives). Graphic © R Hoffman
Dave Elsmore
The collection of Perfins on Revenues can be one of great difficulty to assemble. As we know our philatelic piers would class Revenues as secondary and many found themselves in the bin. Then we have company perfins, these were further classed as 'damaged goods', again many were assigned to the bin.
To find a company Perfin on a Revenue can indeed be a task in itself. Some New South Wales company perfins can be quite common others only a handful have been recorded. Below is a selection from a one frame exhibit page. If you wish to view the full frame of company perfins you can do so here
Little has been written on company perfins from the Australian States, I am at present working with the President of the New Zealand & Australian Perfin Club David Coath [a full time perfinist] on such a task to list all known company perfin patterns on revenues from Australia. The end result will be a printed publication.
If you can contribute to this work please read further here
