perfin

So you would win glory, would you, Perfin?

In philately, a perfin is a stamp that has had initials or a name perforated across it to discourage theft.

Perfin stamps of Australia.

Ticket punches have been replaced by needle punches that punch a pattern of small holes in the control card (similar to a perfin).

The demise of the perfin came about by the widespread use of postage meter machines which obviated the need for perfins.

Occasionally, the word may be uniquely handwritten by a postal authority or, much more elaborately, punched through the stamp paper in a method known as perfin.

By agreement with postal authorities, a perfin stamp on a letter could be used only by the owner of the perfin.

Rufus's pages tended to be of the fair, delicate sort, like his current squire, Perfin of Petersfield, who lounged next to the king now.

"No matter how much ready coin any of your nobles have, they did not save the life of your squire yesterday," Ranulf said, with ironic emphasis on Perfin of Petersfield's supposed role.

A K perfin still affixed to a cover that has some company identifying feature, like the company name, address, or even a postmark or cancellation of a town where the company had offices, enhances such a perfin.

It is often difficult to identify the originating uses of individual perfins because there are usually no identifying features, for instance the Kodak company used a simple K as their perfin, but on its own a stamp perforated K could have been used by several other users.