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Among the Australian stamps there are quite a few with a perforation OS. These include a lot of stamps with an image of King George V (1920s and 1930s in particular).
I find stamps with such a perforation in both the Australian service stamps, but also a number of the Perfins, under Other. Where I don't think they belong.
However, my question concerns stamps from the same period with a 'G NSW' perforation. That NSW probably stands for New South Wales, the G for 'Government'. That leads me to suspect that these are not company perforations. But where do they belong? I found this copy with the stamps #7979641 and this one at the perfins #9166889 I myself have the red 2 pence perforated 'G NSW'.

Who knows where these belong?
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Still, I think they are perfins...

Companies and state departments have sometimes punched holes in stamps to prevent theft of the stamps. These holes can form letters as well as a figure. The stamps are also referred to as 'corporate perforation', which does not quite cover the matter, because government bodies also perfins have created. "

The main aim was to prevent employees (company or government department) from taking the stamps home for personal use.
For the common man (or woman) the postage stamp without the holes was there in the legal proof of payment of the service (shipping).
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Thanks Raoul62 , interesting info. I know nothing about perfins, so I automatically thought of companies, not governments.
I'll take a look this weekend to get some items right.
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I don't know if it's written down somewhere, but I think an exception is made for these stamps and they are included with both the perfins and the service stamps. I once PM-ed with the admin for the perfins about it and the answer was:

In cases like this with both.
Also the service stamps of Luxembourg (official), Switzerland, Bavaria, etc. with perforation on both. The OS of Australia are specifically listed in the Michel, the Australian states are listed for checking purposes. "
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I'm not a stamp manager, but one of the rules at LastDodo is: an item is only cataloged once.
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Morits beat me to it but, whatever some administrator may say, each item only once .
So in case of discussion, this becomes a question for the super admins.
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Perhaps some discussion can bring some clarification.

The perfins arose (in the UK) partly because companies, but indeed also governments, had to deal with theft of stamps. There was a time when stamps were valid regular currency and could also be exchanged for money, making them very attractive to people with long fingers.

The perforation counteracted this: the stamps remained valid for postage, but could no longer be exchanged for money.
The stamps therefore remain stamps but are also perfins.
Perforations also occur in service stamps, railway stamps, tax stamps and perhaps other types as well.

So they are both perfins and postal service etc stamps.
the question is therefore what we give priority - unless it would be/become possible to link the same item to several categories. For example, the rule that an item may only be entered once remains intact, but the item can be found under both headings
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https://australianstrampcatalogue.com/STATE-Decimal-Officials.php
says the following about this:
 
"The individual States used the Commonwealth stamps for Official use by perforating them similar to the Post Office of the time, New South Wales issues were perforated "OS" over "NSW" between 1902 & 1933, in 1933 this changed to "G" over "N.S.W." also from 1907, "GR" was used by the Government Railways & "G.S.B." by the Government Savings Bank, a large number of others were also in use in NSW .   Queensland used normal stamps to begin with then "OS" to 1933.   South Australia used "SA" from 1903 to 1912, then "OS" until 1933.   Tasmania always used "T".  Victoria used "OS" from 1902 until 1933 then changed to "VG", I have stamps punctured "VG" that were released in June 1986 for Victoria, so Victoria was still using Official stamps at least up until June 1986.   Western Australia used "WA" from 1903 to around 1915, then used "OS" until 1933, then changed to "W" over "A".   Additional listings include "PWD" for Public Works Department, UNSW for Universality of NSW, HS for the Health Service, not to mention puncture errors that slipped through the system. "

All those stamps aren't perforated by firms or companies but perforated to be used by the Government or Governement related institutions. They belong to the Stamps catalogue with usage "Official".
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Completely agree with Loriot. British Commonwealth collectors count these types of perforated stamps as service stamps. Others. examples not yet mentioned are SG for Sudan Government and AS for Army Service (also Sudan). The perforation method was mainly used in the more remote colonies where the need for service stamps was not yet so great.
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Note 1:
The same item is only included in the catalog once.

Note 2:
In the stamp handbook this is stated in the introduction:

Included in the stamp section are :
1. Stamps, and related items, issued by a recognized postal service that allowed you to pay for mailing ("postage").
2. Derived products with one or more of the above stamps or related items (for example, FDCs).

Why were the Perfins placed under the Other category at the time?
Aren't they official stamps that are perforated against theft? Or is there a distinction between who made the perforations?
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Perfins were once considered damaged (mutilated) stamps. Didn't even come close to a canceled copy.
Until a special branch was created that upgraded these pieces, derived from a 'real' stamp (as originally sold at the counters).
Just as cancellations of postage stamps are a collecting area (point cancels, round cancels, bar cancels, ...), 'Perfins' is a collecting area.
Both have the same basis: stamps.
Stamps are included in the stamp catalogue.
What is made of it in the processing/shipping process (not to be confused with making work for philatelists!) has a different angle. There it is not the basis (stamp) that is most important, but the cancellation or the holes.
You cannot/couldn't buy perfins at the post counter.
We also do not accept stamps with a different (name or date) stamp. It's not about the cancellation, it's about the basic object. What is and was available at the postal counters to send mail (stamps, blocks, sheets, sheets, booklets and postal stationery).
Only one item: the stamp. And it can be MNH, unused (damaged back) or stamped (destroyed). There is nothing to prevent a user from including a perfin as 'stamped' in their collection with their own image and comment.
The pre-stamps are different. These were also sold at the counter, albeit to a limited extent (not at all counters and not just anyone). The regulations of the Post Office apply to these items. As a private individual you cannot make 'pre-cancelled' stamps yourself. Imagine :)

I don't think it matters whether the holes were made by a private company or a government agency. The goal remained the same. Preventing employees from running off with those pieces of paper that had a certain monetary value. It was not only in the private companies that people walked around with long fingers.
The holes were not made by the postal service before the stamps were pushed over the counter (to a private company or a [government] institution).

Didn't I read somewhere that there would soon be a separate section 'Perfins' on LD to save that collection area from 'Other'?
Has that plan failed so that they suddenly find themselves in the crosshairs of a section (the stamp section) in which they do not belong?
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Didn't I read somewhere that there would soon be a separate section 'Perfins' on LD to save that collection area from 'Other'?
Has that plan failed so that they suddenly find themselves in the crosshairs of a section (the stamp section) in which they do not belong?

That is certainly still on the agenda.
But since it was said that some perfins should be put in Stamps, I thought something had to be stimulated :-)
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It is not an easy one, and is partly open to interpretation.
To ensure that everything runs smoothly, there must be a proper description, with agreements. But then based on a concrete fact that is irrefutable. Something everyone can easily follow.

Such data could be: 'how issued by the Official Postal Service of the country/territory'. So without holes.
Changes made by the postal service itself (e.g. new value overprint, different country/territory designation, pre-stamping) are eligible for the stamp section.
Changes made afterwards (stamping, promotional imprint, holes, ...) are not.

It may also be possible in a different way, but with a high risk of ambiguities and (continuous) reactions (endless discussions).
In addition to private companies and government institutions, there are also 'mixed' companies/institutions. Institutions that perform government tasks (e.g. health insurance) and are funded (sponsored) by the government. You can hardly consider them as a private company. But they are also not government institutions. Previously a subcontracted government service.

Where should a less advanced collector add / find a piece of paper, with teeth all around and holes in it ...
Do you then have to look in a paper catalogue, find out which company or institution made those holes and then find out the economic situation of that company/institution - during the period that the piece of paper got its holes?
Seems like a difficult task even for more advanced philatelists.

There is also a parallel with other 'other' items. Clippings from postal stationery were also not cut out and then offered to the public at the counters of the postal services. That (cutting out) is something that was added later (by an ignorant or not collector).
The postal stationery is a valid item in the stamp category. The cut-out (pressed) stamp is not. Even if you collect those cut-out things passionately.


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But since it was said that some perfins should be put in Stamps, I thought something had to be stimulated :-)
In any case, we need to find a good definition.
And to everyone : it has been said so many times, LD has its own rules and is not a copy of a paper catalog. So (but I don't want to get ahead of myself) if the Perfins get their own section they have to get out of Stamps, whether you like it or not.
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Why were the Perfins placed under the Other category at the time? 
Aren't they official stamps that are perforated against theft? Or is there a distinction between who made the perforations? 

History should not be reversed: 

Since the beginning of Catawiki official stamps were placed in the Stamps Catalogue, perforated or not. 

To create a difference between those official stamps and other perforated stamps, a decision was made to move stamps with perforations by firms or companies to the catalogue “Miscellaneous” “Perfin” (Dutch: “Firmaperforatie [filatelie] (Perfin)”. 

Perforated or not, official stamps still remain official stamps and should be placed only in the Stamps Catalogue. 

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Addendum: better translation of:
"To create a difference between those official stamps and other perforated stamps, a decision was made to move stamps with perforations by firms or companies to the catalog “Miscellaneous” “Perfin” (English: “ Firmaperforatie [filatelie] (Perfin) ”.
Perforated or not, official stamps still remain official stamps and should be placed only in the Stamps Catalog."
In order to distinguish between those service stamps and other perforated stamps, it was decided to move stamps with perforations of firms or companies to the "Miscellaneous" catalog “ Corporate perforation [philately] (Perfin) ”.
Perforated or not, service stamps remain service stamps and should only be placed in the Stamp Catalogue.
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Personally, I would opt for a simple and practical approach:

Stamps that fall under the definition of the Stamps, but are perforated by machine, belong in Perfins.
The (yet to be made) new section Perfins will be an equivalent section to Stamps.
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With all the difficulties that exist with the administrator (ex-super-administrator stamps!) to introduce new perfins, i would say
First see and then believe.
And perforated in my opinion is subordinate to "service" or "official". Or why looking for these stamps "Official" in two different places? Crazy and superfluous.

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Be careful though, not everything with holes are perfins #4690847 .
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Be careful though, not everything with holes are perfins
or like the series of Hungarian stamps from the years 1922/1924 (eg #8358285 ). These perforations were applied by the Hungarian postal services themselves on a number of stamps per sheet and were therefore sold perforated.
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You can probably explain to a layman like me why these stamps with holes should not be considered as perforated stamps.
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You can probably explain to a layman like me why these stamps with holes should not be considered as perforated stamps.
It is probably better to understand it in English:
a perforated stamp,in philatelic terms,is a form of seperation of each stamp
from another on theirs edges within a sheet.
Perfins however are stamps what have  pierced or punched holes
within the face of a stamp.
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Still watch out :-)
I don't want to undermine your story, but your example is poorly chosen. #8358285 can, as far as I'm concerned, be removed from the catalog immediately. There is no reference whatsoever to the perforation. It is simply a duplication of the standard stamp with a poor quality image (i.e. with holes). It is not even a duplicate of #1235107 (Michel No. 346, 50 KORONA), as indicated, but of #1235095 (Michel No. 330, 50 FILLER). The reference to the 1920 wheat harvest varieties would have been more appropriate.
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There are no holes in it, but it is divided into two sections. #9510353 and #9543703 .
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az60 you are right : bad example. Haste and haste, you know...
But the conclusion is the same, namely that those stamps are not perfins
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