|
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
Back
to States index
O
--------------------------------------------------------
O&M.a
User: Charles A. Ord & Minnett.
Stockbrokers
Address: 13-15
O'Connell St, Sydney, NSW.
Revenue Use: Numeral
3d, 6d, 9d, 1/-, 2/-, 3/-, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-.
1966 Decimal $1.
Rarity
Scale: Numeral 3d R3, 6d R3, 9d R4, 1/- R3, 2/-
R4, 3/- R4, 5/- R4, 10/- R4, 20/- R4.
1966
Decimal $1 R4.
Background:
Charles Ord left a senior position in the Bank of
New South Wales and bought a seat on the Sydney
Stock Exchange in 1949 and in 1951 he joined with
Jack Minnett to form the broking firm, Ord and
Minnett. Charles Ord and Jack Minnett knew
each other professionally but there friendship was
based mainly on the time they spent together while
serving in the Australian Army during World War
Two.
The
next three decades saw the business grow steadily,
initially through positioning themselves to
provide the London Stock Market access to
Australian shares. Later the firm was involved in
the establishment of investment trusts, in
particular in the Australian mining industry. This
in turn led to the establishment of more general
funds management organisations.
The
company was involved in some key company floats
including Pioneer Sugar Mills and Lend Lease
Corporation before expanding further into merchant
banking, initially in partnership, and later in
joint venture with Bankers Trust in the company
which became Ord-BT.
In
1960 Ord Minnett acquired A W Harvey Lowe & Co
and in 1964 they acquired the long established
firm of T J Thompson and Sons and the combined
company became Ord, Minnett, T J Thompson and
Partners until 1976 when it was renamed Ord
Minnett.
Device: The
O&M.a device was located in Sydney and the
resulting O&M.a pattern is found on revenue
stamps of NSW, where it is numbered O&M.b, see
Device section of the O&M.a pattern in the NSW
section for an explanation of this anomaly. But
the O&M.a pattern is also found on the revenue
stamps of Queensland, Victoria, South and Western
Australia, where it is numbered O&M.a.
Evidence from Share
Transfer documents indicates that transactions
from all States were handled through Ord and
Minnett’s Sydney office at O’Connell Street. This
suggests that the revenue stamps were sourced from
each State and sent to Sydney for perforation and
subsequent use.
This was also the
practice of other Sydney based Stock broking firms
such as Constable and Co and A D Meares and
Bishop.
The O&M.a device
seems to have been a single die device, but the
authors have examples of close horizontal multiple
strikes that show consistent separation between
pattern strikes. This would normally indicate a
multi die device but there is much evidence for a
single die device as well.
Most multiples show
random separation and further the pattern is found
as a single horizontal centrally located strike on
the large format Victorian £10 revenue which would
not be possible with a multi die device with close
dies with separation to suit the NSW numeral
series. Most likely the device had a single die.
Related
patterns: Refer to other Ord and Minnett patterns
in:
NSW:
O&M.a O&M.b
VIC:
O&M.a
SA:
O&M.a
WA:
O&M.a
--------------------------------------------------------
A
B
C
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
V
W Other
Back
to States index
© copyright 2011
Perfins home
page
|