March 2010: Great Britain - Railway Commission PTPO
February 2010: Kenya - Judicial Type II Overprint
January 2010: New South Wales - Perfins
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
