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Pertins
9-Hole Diamond Punch
9-hole perforator
1956 (28th July)
Airmail Cover from Kingston to Rome, Italy
1
A cover mailed from Kingston on 28 h July 1956 and franked to a total of three shillings and threepence. Both
the one shilling definitive and the two shillings New Constitution stamp have the 9-hole diamond punch, but the
cover is clearly a private item of mail.
VIA AIRMAIL
/YI~· t:-HV. RMEOcCJ <. 1/Vrl
Vlfi 19/.J;,!),:>fJUDRI fi ~. 2 7
FO/ifll e6ij· lf!?/L(
.... : '. ~ 'r .. ·; •
Sender: Miss E. Gray, 9 Penso St.
1 lt seems likely that fiscally used stamps bearing this 9-hole diamond punch passed into private hands, and were
1 1 used on mail. This is the earliest recorded example of a stamp with this punch used on cover.
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The reverse of the cover bears a Rome machine cancellation of 1st August 1956.
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9-Hole Diamond Punch
9-hole perforator
1956 (28th July)
Airmail Cover from Kingston to Rome, Italy
1
A cover mailed from Kingston on 28 h July 1956 and franked to a total of three shillings and threepence. Both
the one shilling definitive and the two shillings New Constitution stamp have the 9-hole diamond punch, but the
cover is clearly a private item of mail.
VIA AIRMAIL
/YI~· t:-HV. RMEOcCJ <. 1/Vrl
Vlfi 19/.J;,!),:>fJUDRI fi ~. 2 7
FO/ifll e6ij· lf!?/L(
.... : '. ~ 'r .. ·; •
Sender: Miss E. Gray, 9 Penso St.
1 lt seems likely that fiscally used stamps bearing this 9-hole diamond punch passed into private hands, and were
1 1 used on mail. This is the earliest recorded example of a stamp with this punch used on cover.
!I I
I .,
The reverse of the cover bears a Rome machine cancellation of 1st August 1956.
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