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lemaven
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12 Jan 2017
04:17:40pm
I found a couple of these last night.

OS I assume is Official Service ? (like our Canadian OHMS = On His/Her Majesty's Service)

VG shows up on more than a few - another Government issue? something else?


The others are more random or have non-alpha symbols so I assume are private, so not too concerned with it to spend time looking for links.


Many thanks for any feedback.

Dave.







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nigelc
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12 Jan 2017
05:30:58pm
re: Australia Perfins

Yes, the "OS" perfins were for use by Australian government departments and there are many Australian stamps and stamps from individual states with perfins like this.

The "OS" perfins on Australian stamps are listed in SG.

The states also had perfins for their own official use including:

"OS/NSW" and "G/NSW" for New South Wales
"SA" for "South Australia"
"T" for Tasmania
"VG" for Victoria
"WA" and "W/A" for Western Australia.

Many of these were on state stamps but some later ones were on Australian stamps.

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lemaven
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12 Jan 2017
05:47:52pm
re: Australia Perfins

Wow, thanks Nigel, I never even considered the States also doing perfins. And some of the "symbols" are now a clearly wonky looking "W".

This may make a nice little extra album page after all!

Many thanks, Dave.

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Rob1956
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12 Jan 2017
07:52:20pm
re: Australia Perfins

Here are a few I have.

Tasmania

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Western Australia

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New South Wales

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Victoria

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OS (Official Service)

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smauggie
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12 Jan 2017
09:29:54pm
re: Australia Perfins

New South Wales G(overnment) on cover.

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Here is a close-up of the stamps just for fun.

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Rob1956
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13 Jan 2017
02:39:01am
re: Australia Perfins

Nice perfins on cover smauggie.

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ikeyPikey
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13 Jan 2017
05:08:38pm
re: Australia Perfins

The slogan cancel adds a special frisson, given the sender & addressee.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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smauggie
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14 Jan 2017
08:10:04am
re: Australia Perfins

Thanks guys.

It was love at first sight for me. Winking

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lemaven
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14 Jan 2017
12:32:58pm
re: Australia Perfins

Yes, thanks as well. I'm glad I asked as this has opened my eyes to something I would have otherwise skip. Now have album pages devoted to Australia Perfins on cover (none yet) and off (a dozen so far) for each State and Federal Government.

Dave.

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Linus
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16 Jan 2017
03:01:51pm
re: Australia Perfins

I have a perfin cover from Australia with the letters DJ LTD. Anybody know what this perfin stands for? Doctor J Limited?

Linus

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Stevo45
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16 Jan 2017
04:13:30pm

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My guess would be David Jones - A Large department store in Melbourne

Steve

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malcolm197
18 Jan 2017
11:44:53am
re: Australia Perfins

Unless David Jones had a branch in Brisbane I guess this might have been an "illegally" liberated perfinned stamp !

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Linus
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18 Jan 2017
12:00:26pm
re: Australia Perfins

Thanks Steve. I "Googled" David Jones Limited and they have 42 stores all over Australia, including Brisbane. I had just never heard of them before, but it makes sense now.

Linus

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jillcrow
19 Jan 2017
05:14:10am
re: Australia Perfins

Everything you ever wanted to know about David Jones Ltd. and their use of perfins:

http://www.perfins.com.au/OZ-Revenue-Perfins/nsw-Revenue-D-Perfins.html

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Linus
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19 Jan 2017
10:20:10am
re: Australia Perfins

Wow, thanks for the link, Jill. That website is a great resource for all Australia perfins.

Linus

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