STAMPS KNOWN PERFINNED

Compiled by Roy Gault

The following table shows the increases in G.B. Perfins in recent years.
DD = Different dies, DDF = Different die face.
Idents = Number of dies for which a user is either known or suspected.

Date	DD	Increase	DDF	Increase	Idents	Increase
31st Dec 2014	24,097	---	240,991	---	13,808	---
31st Dec 2015	24,254	157	248,941	7,950	14,118	310
31st Dec 2016	24,496	242	254,747	5,806	14,424	306
31st Dec 2017	24,653	157	258,362	3,615	14,650	226
31st Dec 2018	24,760	107	263,412	5,050	14,868	218

If current trends continue we should reach 25,000 different dies early in 2020; 275,000 DDF at the end of 2020; 15,000 Identified Perfins was achieved during 2019.

Click here to download a spreadsheet listing all known G.B. Perfin dies (Excel file)

The following pages record the number of different Perfins that can be found on the Postage Stamps of Great Britain. This is not intended to be a Catalogue of G.B. Perfins as that already exists in the form of the The Gault Catalogue of Great British Perfins. This series of documents have been generated by the Catalogue Editor using information contained within the Gault Catalogue, and have been created to give an idea of exactly how many, or quite how few, different Perfins are known on each individual postage stamp. Lists of the Perfins involved will not generally be available, although there will be exceptions to this rule.

Detailed introduction to G.B. Perfins How it all began - Perfin Types - Local Die-makers - Collecting Themes - Die Analysis - and much more …
Monarch selection - please select a monarch of interest.
Queen Victoria 1837-1901	King Edward VII 1901-1910	King George V 1910-1936
King Edward VIII 1936	King George VI 1936-1952	Queen Elizabeth II 1952-Current

Perfin dies found on postage stamps from all six reigns

Just over 100 Victorian perfin dies are found on postage stamps from all six reigns, right into the Elizabethan era.
These are recorded in the Earliest and Longest Lived Dies list.
Of these, just three (shown below) may also be found on the Line Engraved stamps of Queen Victoria.

D0580.01M

G1390.01

H2980.01

Click here for downloadable pdf files of this introduction and the pages for each monarch