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	Commercial Ceylon


	The following five scans of Ceylon issues have been kindly sent in by Jeff Turnbull from his not inconsiderable collection of perfins. Thanks to his captions, they are all self-explanatory.











		The table below lists the companies, (mostly from Colombo), along with the known values treated with their perfins. (The letters indicate: a= shown above amongst Jeff’s examples, b= shown below and k= known to exist according to the table on Neil Donen’s informative site).

Company	6c	9c	20c	50c
Brook Bond Co.	a	k	a
Cargills Ltd.		a
H.W. Cave & Co. Ltd.	b	k		k
Colombo Commercial Co.	k	a		k
Colombo Municipal Council	b
Dalmege Forsyth & Co.	k	k	k	k
E.B. Creasey & Co. Ltd.	a	a	k
Gordon Frazer & Co.	a	a
Henderson & Co. Ltd.	k		b
Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation	a	a	b
H Vavasseur & Co.		a	b
Lee Hodges & Co. Ltd.				a
Mercantile Bank of India	a	a
Miller & Co. Ltd.	a			b
National Bank of India			k	k
Plate Ltd.	a	k
P & O Banking Corporation Ltd.	k			k
Thomas Cook & Sons Ltd.	a	a	a	b
Volkart Brothers	a		k
Whittal & Co.	a	a	k


	Some of the missing values I’ve managed to find………




	Miller & Company’s high value



	Thomas Cook & Son’s high value



		Inverted examples of the H.W. Cave & Co. Ltd. perfin whose configuration seems designed for vertical format stamps



	AJA - September 2010




		Strip of three examples of the Colombo Municipal Council



	A somewhat skewed rendering of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation’s perfin on the 20 cent value



	A sideways example of Henderson & Co. Ltd’s perfin: H & Co.

A 20 cent value with a sideways example of H. Vavasseur & Co.’s H. V perfin