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1d Pictorial used in 1912 with TS F private perfin
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:17 pm
by Ross Ewington
This is a new discovery for me - a 1d Pictorial with the
TS F private perfin as used by Melbourne Printer/Publisher
THOMAS SHAW FITCHETT
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Has anyone recorded this private perfin on a Tasmanian stamp before?
Re: 1d Pictorial used in 1912 with TS F private perfin
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 4:43 pm
by John Campton
Hi Ross,
I have a large collection of interstate cds on Tasmanian Pictorials and have two of the TSF private perforations. One on a 2d with Melbourne Code 4 cds dated 24 NO 10 and another on a 1d with undated Victorian machine cancel. The 2d has an inverted and squared perforation. The 1d is sideways as per your specimen but slanted towards the top and not the bottom.
As Fitchett Brothers of Melbourne were publishers to Whittaker & Co London, and Thomas Shaw Fitchett its managing director you must ask yourself were they his own stamp stock or the company's with his own initials.
Re: 1d Pictorial used in 1912 with TS F private perfin
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 9:57 am
by Ross Ewington
thanks John
Apparently 'everyone' had seen one except me! My best guess as to it's 'reason for being' is that orders were possibly received from Tasmania with stamps used as payment ..... these stamps were then used by the firm from October 1910 'on' with the private perfin (obviously applied by hand .... possibly to an individual stamp)