PERFIN, a term used in the 1910's--usually not a cancellation as such, but rather a privately administered punching into the stamp of one or more initials. Most often, the initials was of a large firm that wished to prevent personal use of their stamps by employees. Offered on a 7 day auction are 4 of these rare stamps beginning 9-22-13 and starting at 99 cents. To go to auction
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those are cool, i've never seen ones with perforations like that!
ReplyDeleteThese perforations were done for security reasons only, theft prevention.
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