Stamps/Why in category other?7 messages

I was adding girth covers in the other section

and then I came across this item.

7799663

Is this correct?

Is / was this not usable as a stamp?

This is a stamp with company perforation (= perfin), and they do not belong to the regular stamps, but to others (because it has been agreed that way). The company perforation was intended as an anti-theft measure, and it is emphasized that it is not the fact that it is a stamp for postage, as the designers of the Catawiki system conceived it at the time. I don't know the reasoning behind it. For example, it could just be that there is no year of issue associated with it (requires a lot of research if at all to find out).

Dick

But you could send mail with it?

I am thinking from music carriers

an LP is different material than a CD

both sound, hence the same heading, just as simple reasoning

Hence music cassette also in those sections, not others

sound / music starting point

postage stamp is for franking mail, so you can find it in the postage section

So don't search in: other

it will certainly have been thought about, but strange to me

I am not a stamp expert. More stamp related items can be found in the other section. For example postage, apparently for the benefit of collectors who want to show a subdivision how and where a stamp is canceled.

Nice that posting on this forum (at least for me) makes you curious about the history of those holes. We have now seen on the internet that specific groups of collectors worldwide have plunged into this phenomenon. There are clubs, gatherings, separate sites with many stamps. More extensive history can be found at noviopost.nl/archief-Novioposta/nr114/nr114. I'd rather not paste full links, just type it in. Perfins were commonplace and lever presses were even developed.

Other also contains tax stamps. You could also say to create a main section for all kinds of stamp shapes other than stamps. And well every collector who collects something specific may prefer to see his thing in a main section and that is impossible and perhaps unnecessary. If only you can find it ... Type in stamps and the shapes will appear.

Ondanks alles zijn en blijven het frankeerzegels,hoofdzakelijk gebruikt door bedrijven, zowel multinationals als familiebedrijven maar werden ook aan het publiek verkocht als frankeerzegels,anti-diefstal gaat hier dus niet op.

Met de perfin K werden frankeerzegels van 1895-1967 aan het publiek verkocht door de Amsterdamse Kiosk-Onderneming N.V. (AKO). Eveneens met een ander type K van 1922-1940 door N.V. Van Ditmar's couranten-import en kiosken-onderneming te Rotterdam.Tevens met de perfin S van 1907-1954 door de Haagsche Kioskonderneming (Segboer) in 's Gravenhage en Scheveningen.

M.b.t tot het jaar van uitgifte c.q. gebruik is van 95% van de gebruikers toch wel bekend waar en de tijdsperiode waarin gebruikt.Wanneer er nieuwe zegels door de diverse posterijen werden uitgegeven werden deze natuurlijk ook door de bedrijven gebruikt.       De zegels werden ook normaal afgestempeld waardoor je vaak dag/maand en jaar kunt detecteren.

Wereldwijd zijn er inderdaad tienduizenden verzamelaars van perfins.Ik vind het persoonlijk jammer dat ze in je shop niet zichtbaar zijn bij de postzegels maar onder Overig.Ik heb het idee dat veel postzegel verzamelaars deze rubriek niet openen omdat je,ondanks de vele verzamelaars,er nooit iets van verkoopt.

Despite everything, they are and remain franking stamps, mainly used by companies, both multinationals and family businesses, but were also sold to the public as franking stamps, so anti-theft does not apply here.

With the perfin K, franking stamps from 1895-1967 were sold to the public by the Amsterdamse Kiosk-Onderneming NV (AKO). Also with another type K from 1922-1940 by NV Van Ditmar's newspaper import and kiosk company in Rotterdam. Also with the perfin S from 1907-1954 by the Haagsche Kioskonderneming (Segboer) in The Hague and Scheveningen.

With regard to the year of issue or use, 95% of the users know where and the time period in which it was used. When new stamps were issued by the various postal authorities, these were of course also used by the companies. The stamps were also canceled normally, so you can often detect day/month and year.

There are indeed tens of thousands of perfins collectors worldwide. Personally, I think it is a pity that they are not visible in your shop under the stamps, but under Other. I have the impression that many stamp collectors do not open this section because, despite the many collectors, there are never sells any of it.

in your own shop you can indeed place them with the catalog stamps. as far as they are in the catalog. entry separately in the catalog is not allowed.

after all, they are existing stamps and you can simply enter them in your shop under canceled / unused / MNH.

Technically you CAN, but I don't think it's allowed.