Small 'A' Perfin of George Adams New Find

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Revenuer
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Small 'A' Perfin of George Adams New Find

#1 Post by Revenuer » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:30 am

A.a pattern for George Adams of Collins St Tasmania.

This represents the first and very important find of this pattern on a revenue.

See http://www.perfins.com.au/OZ-Revenue-Pe ... rfins.html for details.
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Re: Small 'A' Perfin of George Adams New Find

#2 Post by Ross Ewington » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:53 am

Interesting .... can you provide a scan of the back as well please?

Do you know the provenance of this item? One would assume that a firm the size of Tattersalls would
have used a huge number of revenues so it is surprising that such an A perfin hasn't been seen before.

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Re: Small 'A' Perfin of George Adams New Find

#3 Post by David Coath » Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:32 pm

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 pattern was struck prior to being put on the document (or whatever ) so it was used as a true perfin and not a canceller .

There are no known forged A's , at least I have never seen or heard of any.

There are a hand full of 3d Platypus , I have one and DMc has 2 but I am sure there are more around. But these are all postally used. This may have been postally used but I do not think so.

It smells ok to me. I only wish that I had seen it first

David

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