Danish Perfin sold for 9,000 DKKr.

Here is a fine perfin:

http://www.qxl.dk/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=532259948

I don't know if the price is the highest ever paid for a perfin?

What does

CCB
x Co

stand for? and in the Danish catalogue the text is just "Kontaktaftryk
af GB mærke"? which means that the catalogue has used a GB stamp as
illustration. But I can't find it in the Tomkin's catalogue?
--
Mvh Toke

http://www.norbyhus.dk/

On Mar 23, 9:28 am, Toke Nørby wrote:
Here is a fine perfin:

http://www.qxl.dk/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=532259948

I don't know if the price is the highest ever paid for a perfin?

What does

CCB
x Co

stand for? and in the Danish catalogue the text is just "Kontaktaftryk
af GB mærke"? which means that the catalogue has used a GB stamp as
illustration. But I can't find it in the Tomkin's catalogue?
--
Mvh Toke

http://www.norbyhus.dk/

Hello Toke:

Circa 1881, C C B & Co was used for C. C. Bancroft and Company.

They were a Boston (USA) based merchant company that did
trade with India, the East, and possibly other places.

They were agents who had an office in Calcutta, India and I
would also expect in the UK.

The 1880-81 issue 2 1/2d GB stamp (plate 21) Scott 82, used,
showing perforated initials CCB & Co. was auctioned in 2006.
Start bid was $1 (catalogue $27.50). I do not know final price.
This is probably the same company.

I cannot speak for Denmark, but a major trading company
like this might very well have business ties to Denmark.

Blair

On Mar 23, 9:28 am, Toke Nørby wrote:
Here is a fine perfin:

http://www.qxl.dk/accdb/viewItem.asp?IDI=532259948

I don't know if the price is the highest ever paid for a perfin?

What does

CCB
x Co

stand for? and in the Danish catalogue the text is just "Kontaktaftryk
af GB mærke"? which means that the catalogue has used a GB stamp as
illustration. But I can't find it in the Tomkin's catalogue?
--
Mvh Toke

http://www.norbyhus.dk/

"Toke Nørby"
What does
CCB
x Co
stand for?

I went scuttling to my six pages of Danish Perfins,
alas! I must have the common old boring ones.
http://cjoint.com/data/dybtHniZIj.htm

As an aside, Ask Phil had a CCB for Charles C Brumm, Siderographer.
why would that be in Ask Phil?
Does his Initials appear on a stamp? essay? etc.

On Mar 23, 8:25 pm, "rodney" wrote:
"Toke Nørby"

What does
CCB
x Co
stand for?

I went scuttling to my six pages of Danish Perfins,
alas! I must have the common old boring ones.http://cjoint.com/data/dybtHniZIj.htm

As an aside, Ask Phil had a CCB for Charles C Brumm, Siderographer.
why would that be in Ask Phil?
Does his Initials appear on a stamp? essay? etc.

Rodney:

Your Charles C. Brumm, was an employee of the US Bureau of
Engraving and Printing from 1906-1928.

I'm not sure how he would be connected to a company perfin on a
Danish stamp that had been issued before he had even started
working for the American BEP.

Blair

"Blair (TC)"

Your Charles C. Brumm, was an employee of the US Bureau of
Engraving and Printing from 1906-1928.

I'm not sure how he would be connected to a company perfin on a
Danish stamp that had been issued before he had even started
working for the American BEP.

:0)
not suggesting it was connected.
I was wondering why he deserved a listing in ask phil.
His initials must appear on something.

"Blair (TC)" wrote:

Hello Toke:

Circa 1881, C C B & Co was used for C. C. Bancroft and Company.

They were a Boston (USA) based merchant company that did
trade with India, the East, and possibly other places.

They were agents who had an office in Calcutta, India and I
would also expect in the UK.

The 1880-81 issue 2 1/2d GB stamp (plate 21) Scott 82, used,
showing perforated initials CCB & Co. was auctioned in 2006.
Start bid was $1 (catalogue $27.50). I do not know final price.
This is probably the same company.

I cannot speak for Denmark, but a major trading company
like this might very well have business ties to Denmark.

Blair

Thanks Blair - and Rodney. I forgot to mention that the cancel reads
181 which is a RPO on Sealand but with ending station in Copenhagen.
Maybe the company's agent had pre-perforated stamps with him. (A
situation we also see with a special Danish perfin brought to and used
on the Faroe Islands by the agent)
--
Mvh Toke

http://www.norbyhus.dk/