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Private Revenue Perfins of Queensland An Elsmore Coath production The authors would welcome your comments additions or input into this work
A B C E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V W Other G -------------------------------------------------------- GRR.a User: G R Ryder Ltd Tailors Address: 166-168 Queen St, Brisbane, QLD Revenue Usage: KEDVII 1901 issue 2d. Rarity Scale: KEDVII 1901 issue 2d R4. Background: George R Ryder Limited
were tailors and men’s outfitters in Brisbane and
Toowoomba from at least 1901. There early
advertisements also claim an office in London. They occupied a retail store in
Queen Street but they were also active in mail order
delivery. By 1926 they had expanded to Roma and
Townsville. In 1928 George Ryder died and the
site in Queen Street was taken over by G J Coles in
1931, however as a company G R Ryder continued to
trade from another location in Queen Street. To date no document, company
cachet, application or postal item has been found to
prove that GRR was a device used by George R Ryder
Limited. However the company was known to use a logo
GRR (see below) that was similar to the GRR
pattern(s). What is more they were involved in Mail
Order sales and this is an activity that requires a
great deal of postage and it is common to find mail
order / retailers to be perfin users. Device: The GRR pattern is rarely found and little is known about it. This is odd as the known examples are clear strikes of apparently sound devices. However despite this evidence the GRR device was short lived. Most likely it was a single head device. The pattern is found on Revenue and Postage stamps around 1910 and another similar GRR pattern is found used on Postage stamps in 1912. Related Patterns: Nil
-------------------------------------------------------- G.S/H.a User: George S Hutton & Co Accountant Address: 100 Eagle St, Brisbane, QLD Revenue Usage: QV [Widow Weeds] 1d KEDVII 1901 issue 1d, 2d. Rarity Scale: QV [Widow Weeds] 1d R4. KEDVII 1901 issue 1d R4, 2d R4. Background: George Samuel Hutton (1848–1913), accountant, was born on 1 October 1848 at Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, the son of George Hutton (1820–1902), a civil servant, and his wife Mary, née Dowenend. George was educated at Manchester Grammar School before migrating to Queensland with his parents in November 1862 aboard the Prince Consort. Initially, he helped on the family farm, but later worked briefly in the railways before joining Clark, Hodgson & Co., merchants at Ipswich and Brisbane. From the late 1870s, Hutton worked as an accountant with the Brisbane branch of S. Hoffnung & Co. In October 1893, he commenced practice as a public accountant specialising in insolvencies and liquidations and, due to the harsh economic conditions of the time, his business flourished. His audit clients included his former firm, Hoffnung's, and the Queensland National Bank. He also managed the Queensland branch of the Manchester Assurance Co. Hutton was a member of the Brisbane Board of Advice for the Federal Institute of Accountants and later became the founder and principal partner of G. S. Hutton & McFarlane. Hutton was commissioned into the Queensland Defence Force in 1876 and retired with the rank of captain in 1897. Through this service, he received a land order certificate for fifty acres (20 ha) of land in the Gympie district. He was a member of the Hamilton Town Council from 1902 to 1911 and served as Mayor from 1905 to 1906. Appointed by the Government to the committee of the Brisbane General Hospital in 1909, he served until 1913. He was also active in Liberal Party politics, although he never stood for Parliament. On 13 October 1885, Hutton married the widow Catherine Palmer, née Chapman. They had two daughters and one son. The family lived comfortably at Bay View, their home at Albion in Brisbane. It was a fine house set in spacious grounds, and his elderly parents lived in a smaller adjacent residence. Hutton died of cancer on 4 August 1913 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery. The firm of G. S. Hutton & McFarlane continued trading until at least the 1970s, after which it was acquired and absorbed by the large accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand. Device: The GSH.a device has not been conclusively attributed to George S. Hutton, and accountants were not commonly users of perfin devices. However, the letter combination, its known use in Brisbane, and its correspondence with the company name provide compelling evidence supporting George S. Hutton as the provisional user. It is possible that Hutton became aware of the use and value of perfin devices while working at S. Hoffnung & Co., which was a long-term user of perfins from 1887 until the 1960s (see the S chapter). The GSH.a device was a single-die device. This has been demonstrated through multiple recorded strikes that show no consistent positional relationship to one another. The device appears to have been in use only for a short period, from 1899 until 1905, and no other devices associated with the company are currently known. Related Patterns: Nil *Australian Dictionary of Biography. --------------------------------------------------------
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