Catalogue of Romanian Perfins

 

Carpet Cancellations

 

Romanian documents were sometimes cancelled with perforated dies, and these are sometimes mistaken for ‘Perfins’, especially when partial strikes are seen on stamps removed from there documents.  They are found mainly on fiscal stamps used to frank documents but are also found on postal issues.  They should really be known as ‘Carpet Cancellations’, and take many forms. 

 

Examples are shown below, to help collectors separate them from true perfins

 


 1

Date Cancellations

 

Dates punches are usually in the form of 
Date / Month / Year and the Romanians usually
show the month as a three letter abbreviation and
the year with the last three digits only. 
In some case a two digit numeral is used for the month.
  Often the name of the organization is included in a date stamp
The ‘collected’ stamp of the Romanian national bank

 
2

Cancelling Dies

 

These are usually very large dies
covering many stamps and
are best seen on the original documents

 
Cancelled in Romanian

Cancelled in Hungarian



The American English spelling of ‘Cancelled’

Some cancelling dies carry the name of the organisation
3

Miscellaneous Dies

From a Romanian passport
4

Muntiple Hole Punches

 

Hole punches arrange in various coded design are found a=on fiscal issues cancelled by banking institutions
5

Hole Punches

 

A single hole punch is sometimes found on postal issues, and these are usually filing holes causes when a postcard is perforated to be added to a filing system

 

Other more complex shaped punches are also found.  These are simple cancelling punches but sometimes are applied unintentionally to stamps