They are company and local authority overprints. The first for use by the London Borough of Leyton, the Machin for the Southern Gas Board, mostly used on customer receipts where they would be affixed to and signed across.
It was also a security measure to stop the pilfering of postage by employees.
This image is of a perfin used in the same manner. Rickett etc, I believe were coal merchants who made deliveries to households a sackful at a time.
These are usually called "Commercial Overprints."
Unlike perfins, once they were overprinted they weren't valid for postage, except for a very short period of a few months after the relevant tax was abolished.
Thank you Victor and Nigel!
SOR members seldom fail!
While technically a form of revenues, they make an interesting
page of Wilding and later Machin usages. As such they are usually
offered at the basic price for common used postage stamps.
think they are interesting, and somewhere have a fairly complete
compilation of of known varieties.
Since I have no interest in them, if anyone wants them, PM me and the first person to do so can have them.
Can anyone tell me about these?
(....other than the left one has a corner missing and the right one is a Machin...)
re: Help With These
They are company and local authority overprints. The first for use by the London Borough of Leyton, the Machin for the Southern Gas Board, mostly used on customer receipts where they would be affixed to and signed across.
It was also a security measure to stop the pilfering of postage by employees.
re: Help With These
This image is of a perfin used in the same manner. Rickett etc, I believe were coal merchants who made deliveries to households a sackful at a time.
re: Help With These
These are usually called "Commercial Overprints."
Unlike perfins, once they were overprinted they weren't valid for postage, except for a very short period of a few months after the relevant tax was abolished.
re: Help With These
Thank you Victor and Nigel!
SOR members seldom fail!
re: Help With These
While technically a form of revenues, they make an interesting
page of Wilding and later Machin usages. As such they are usually
offered at the basic price for common used postage stamps.
think they are interesting, and somewhere have a fairly complete
compilation of of known varieties.
re: Help With These
Since I have no interest in them, if anyone wants them, PM me and the first person to do so can have them.