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Ross I could not believe my eyes when I saw the scan a couple of days ago. It came from a revenue seller in the UK who trades on ebay and was not expensive. The pattern looks good and the reverse scan I have seen looks like it was affixed to some rather flimsy paper rather than an envelope. The patt...

Dear Ross If I missed this on ebay then I need to redefine my search The DJLTD on Tasmanian issues is indeed rare. Having said that I have examples of this pattern on SA, Tas and Qld issues. I believe that this is due to cross State issues being used to reduce stocks , around 1912, prior to the Kang...

Dear All I have been talking to Ross about this triangular punch as I did not have one and had not seen one. Ross informed me he has some in his next auction and David Andersen reminded me that there was one in David McNamee's Gold medal exhibit. Which is up on perfins.com.au if you want to look at ...

Dear All I must confess near complete ignorance of these but I have read around and what better place to look than a post by Ross on this site http://tps.org.au:80/bb/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=517 There has also been some excellent discussion on Stampboards that had some TPS input leading to the conclusi...

Dear Ross By the way I have recently written a piece on the LLG's used in Australia as the listing in HAPP is incomplete and somewhat misleading It can be found here at Dave Elsmore's perfin site http://www.perfins.com.au/articles/llg.pdf At the bottom of it it has some pattern refernce images that ...

Dear Ross Yes indeed a nice patttern. It is the HAPP ( Handbook of Australin Private Perfins - Mathews ) MM.7. As you suggest Mercantile Mutual. In the recent Tasmanian chapter of "Revenue Perfins of Australia " that I did with Dave Elsmore we call this pattern MM.a and it is the only MM found on Ta...

Dear Ross Nice work This seller has spread his wings it seems and he is now dealing in a wide variety of forged items. I note Daves comments about the cleaned revenue stamp and Ross you had shared the fake postmark with me before. Initially he was home to OS patterns on KGV and Roos and the usual sp...

Dear Ross , Dave and All Yes the nature of the 5 pins looking similar is interesting. Ofcourse the nature of the device being an altered line perforator would mean that the pins would tend to be straight and consistent and therefore a group of 5 would look much like another group of 5. But this is n...

Dear All The other day I was approached to provide an opinion on the attached. They are a 10/- , 1 pound and 2 pound all with T perfins. They are stated to be CofA but the reverse scan does not show a clear watermark. The postmark on the 10/- indicates CofA as it is 1937. I am a T collector and to m...

Dear David and Ross I may have something to add to this. In South Pacific Perfin Bulletin # 82 of July 2008 , John Mathews wrote an article entitled " A.3, A.4 and A.5 the Enigma solved. In this article he used research by Bill Harley and myself as well as his own study of these patterns. I could ne...

Dear All With respect to the 2 rd one which Geoff hopes is a postmark from Gray (?) Again I am not sure as I have no expertise in the area of postmarks. But if it is a valid Tasmanian postmark then I think we need to view it posatively . It is a 5 x 5 which is appropriate for the period and although...

Dear Ross, Nick and Geoff Sorry if I am a little clumsy I do not post very often. I would also say that although I am a perfin collector, and I have a sound T collection my collecting and study is focussed on private perfins. Having said that I have seen a lot of T's and other Official patterns. I a...

Ross You should have the latest of David Andersen's Catalogues the 2007 edition 2 . It lists the 7 c UPU in the 5x5 format . It offers no rarity ratings but I would consider it one of the rarer ones of the decimals. If you admit that you do not have this catalogue on this site I will personaly send ...

Dear Ross Thanks for the prompt to respond to this . Yes I have seen this before and I have a single example. Mine is P/M 1903 . It is a common pattern but this is certainly the hardest issue to find with this pattern . You show a nice multiple , I must say that I have never seen a multiple of this ...

Dear Ross and David

An interesting item indeed and to my eye it looks genuine.

Such things are reported in David Andesen's Australian Official Perfins but not on this value.

I will forward the link to David

David

Hey Dave , thanks for the welcome and thanks to Ross for posting my image as I had some issues with that. I think I will be able to do it next time. I would not think that the DS&Co had been used as a canceling device as the usage seems to be postal. I suspect that Ross is right and that the punctur...

Dear All I am new to this having just joined TPS. Even though I would call myself a perfin collector I can add little to this except the image that I have . [attachment=0]DS&Co.jpg[/attachment] One interesting thing in the image is the ½d QV Tablet that was on piece and had been punched through the...