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Mauritius Commercial Bank
These have the letters “MCB” over “M” which have been noted in various aspects, including 90 degree rotation which, in view of the format of the colonial Jubilee issue, might suggest use of a single setting of the perfin perforator.
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This thought is perhaps reinforced by the skewed examples of the perfin in the strip of three shown here.
Presumably, any mint examples, let alone a strip of three, shouldn’t exist outside the bank.
Neil Donen’s site reports that at the end of 1935, the bank put surplus perfinned stocks into store and that these were drawn out for use during the second world war, when there was a stamp shortage. The cover to Switzerland, shown below, appears to anticipate the war by 4 days.
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Blyth Brothers & Company
A trading company established as far back as 1830, its perfins have the letters “BB” over “& Co” which have been noted on the 5c and 20c and in at least the four sideways configurations.
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Mercantile Bank of India Ltd
Also missing from some listings are the perfins of this bank which show the letters “M.B.I.” over “Ltd”.
This cover, though no doubt highly philatelic, has a number of interesting aspects. It boasts a denomination which, on its own, is almost a stranger to envelopes. It bears a reversed upright example of the Bank of India’s perfin, which is cancelled by a last day of issue cds of Tamarin, (a village on the west coast in the Black River district).
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AJA - April 2010, augmented June 2010
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