It seems that many brilliant inventors claim authorship of the use of perforations to separate the stamps, but this goes back long before our beloved Seeders during the century that precedes them. We do not mingle in the debate, even if their postal workers are still grateful today to have more to aim between two stamps with their scissors. The perforations were born and well-born!
However, small malignant have had them even more preposterous the idea of using the same principle, and copy it to make holes in the stamps, and not just around!
This gave us the famous perforated stamps , Sower and those type are probably the most common of them. Are readily available, and several hundred different are listed!
Their value is usually minimal, although many are amateurs.
It is true that nothing is easier than to produce at will from normal stamps of little value ...
Collectors seek them mostly on mail time.
Remember that the purpose was to make the stamps unusable by any dishonest employees of a company that she bought them for her business mail, and perforated with initials or acronyms different, so that staff can use it for its own account, and is thus not too tempted to steal ...
Ideally, the mail must be marked with the company in question, as well as the stamp, which is not always the case.
But even with these requirements, it is difficult to find real rarities among them!
Here are some examples, however, rare:
In this letter the insurance company "to the rescue", you might recognize a pretty 25 stamp c. blue type II, from the 3rd books have been issued with the stamp in 1922, not advertising on the strip, and perforated SA for "Rescue Insurance or Accident?". It's really unusual in my opinion: I've never seen another!
It was also necessary to have identified it as a stamp book ...
To appreciate the true value, you should know that these holes were only very rarely performed on stamps from booklets.
Companies stocked indeed much more willingly leaves as notebooks.
And perforation should be much easier technically on the leaves.
Once again the old adage holds true lovers of collectors and connoisseurs:
"Everything is in the manufacture of stamps"
then stamps from books sometimes had the disadvantage of wearing a strip advertising advertisement extolling the virtues of another company sometimes.
So we cut it and is thrown in the trash: too bad for those who paid advertising to promote itself!
Like the other letter:
We see hardly appear Advertising above the stamp: should have the eye! ...
Too bad for the journal "Annals" that would make his pub in his notebooks, which was voluntarily removed the tape holding the stamp.
Fortunately, the vertical offset suggests, if this stamp book would have been much less easy to spot. Again, this is a type II, but from a book with advertising, issued in 1924.
The stamp is perforated NG used on a mail News Galleries Together.
not really know either ...
The most observant among you will note the date erroneous date stamp on the center: the 39th March 1925!
If you know of similar, I'm interested, even a photo ...
just goes in the eye with very attentive, and being well informed, can still, and only a few euros, and meet nice rarities in his collection, then they are probably past unnoticed under the noses of many collectors!
A final example, even rarer, yet without being derived from books:
The stamp is a 10 v. from red leaf, but this time perforated lter 5 CMES by a company "The letter to 5 cents" which sold at half price, in 1912-1913, a budget hole ready to be used, which was a letter to the correspondence buyers. Both are covered in various commercial ads. A wonder to behold! It's here
unfortunately only a fragment.
Various gifts were offered by the same occasion by the newspaper "The Dispatch" from Toulouse who called it a pocket-premium (a blotter and a nice pen in this case)!
The two existing models, which we only know some specimens are completely visible to the "Whole" of 10 c. red on the famous site http://www. semeuse.com
Their circulation have yet been 10,000 copies (2 x different models).
In my opinion, you will not see elsewhere for as pretty: personally, there's a good twenty years after I run, never have been able to catch a whole!
Y what has become crazy
What take a gun.
S'faire a hole, a little hole, one last little hole.
A small hole, a little hole, one last little hole
And they put me in a big hole.
j'n'entendrais And more talk of holes
Small holes, small holes Small holes, small holes ....
... as sung by the late Serge Gainsbourg!
Andorra philatelists would also have given their heart and their letters are found today in the beautiful sales! ... priceless! ...