Perfins: maximum challenge, minimal cost
By Rick Miller
Pardon me, sir, but your stamp has a hole in it. Several, in fact.
Perfins. Stamps punched with "perforated initials" or other designs and used generally by commercial firms in order to deter theft.
Perfins: Stamps punched with 'perforated initials' or designs of holes that stand for letters, numbers or symbols. Perfins are normally used by a business or government office to discourage pilferage or misuse of stamps by employees.
Perfins - See "Branding."
Perforation - The punching out of holes between stamps to ease separation.
Perforation Gauge - A device for calculating the number of perforations contained by a stamp.
perfins - What an odd name! What it means is that there are perforations "in" the stamp that usually spell out a word or some initials. For example, stamps used by the Government of Canada once had the initials O.H.M.S. punched into the stamp.
PERFINs are stamps which have been punched with small pins to form a design or a company's initials. This helped companies make the stamps easier to trace which cut down on employee pilfering of the company's postage stamps for personal use.
Perfins: Stamps perforated through the face with identifying initials, designs or holes in coded positions. Perfins are normally used by a business or government office to discourage pilferage or misuse of stamps by employees.
The Perfins Club
The Perfin Society
Commercial Overprint Society of Great Britain
Italian Perfin Web Site
Jonz Stamping Ground Perfin Page
UK Perfins of the Victorian Period
Hong Kong Security Markings and Perfins ...
The Perfins Club
The Perfin Society
Perfin Club of New Zealand and Australia
Bay Area Perfin Association
Dansk Perfin Samlerklub. Danish Perfin Society - In Danish and English ...
The Perfins Club
Jackson Sothern Memorial Globe Award - available if 3 or more Perfin exhibits, must be a member.
Three perfins were used by departmental agencies: The Québec Liquor Commission, an agency of Québec's Department of the Solicitor General; The Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railroad, which came under Ontario's Ministry of Transportation; ...
Canadian perfins are special postage stamps perforated with initials or other distinguishing marks.
Canadian perfin postage stamps were used to discourage stamp reuse and postage stamp theft.
Agujeritos: (Sp.) perfins.
Ägypten: (Ger.) Egypt.Ah.-ausg. (Ger.) provisional issue.
Ahmnos: Greece, Lemnos Islands.
Ahnangsel: (Ger.) tab, attached.
Ähnlich: (Ger.) similar, catalog usage.
The perforations are generally in the form of initials or a symbol that identify the owner of the stamp. Perfins are produced by businesses or organizations to discourage theft or misuse of their stamps.
Precancellation of stamps of this country was effected by means of oversized holed perfins. Little is known other than stamps defaced in this fashion often received additional cancellations at the office of destination.
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Austria: ...
OHMS: Abbreviation for On His (or Her) Majesty's Service. Used in perfins, overprints or franks to indicate Official use in the British Commonwealth.
 See also: Stamp, Perfin, Used, Catalog, Cover
  
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