PERFIN SOCIETY LIBRARY

Our librarian is Roy Gault.

Starting in 1961 with just 15 items, the society now maintains an extensive library of several thousand books, articles and periodicals from around the world.
Every item is given a unique 4-digit library number.

With the departure of our librarian Sean Brady to New Zealand, the library was initially transferred to Ron Mills. The library will now be moved to Roy Gault’s home as he has a bit more space. Over the years the library has grown to be very large and bulky but can be streamlined as much of it has been scanned allowing individual articles from magazines and journals to be discarded. Once the cull has been completed, any multiple copies of catalogues will be put into the Society auction, and if not sold, offered to National Philatelic libraries.

Any library related queries should now be directed to the new Librarian, Roy Gault at roy.gault@ntlworld.com

Thanks to the work of our Bulletin Editor, Maurice Harp, we now have scans available of a large number of library items, in pdf format. These are gradually being added to this website and can be accessed from the List of items by Library Number. We gratefully acknowledge the permission granted by The Perfins Club to reproduce material published by them.

Details of library items can be viewed via the following links:-
LIBRARY INDEX BY SUBJECT	LIST OF ITEMS BY LIBRARY NUMBER (with links to scans)
LIST OF BOOKS: Great Britain	LIST OF BOOKS: Other countries

The library also now holds various documents which were saved by the Society when the J. Sloper & Co. works were closed in the 1990s.
The firm invented the perfin process - see the FAQ page for more information.

Photograph of Sloper's City office in 1897

Sloper records of perfin and commercial overprint dies and their users

Letter of 13th March 1868 to Sloper from the GPO authorising the use of perfins on postage stamps

Letter of 27th June 1870 to Sloper from the Inland Revenue authorising the use of perfins on Foreign Bill and Inland Revenue stamps