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Private Revenue Perfins of Victoria An Elsmore Coath production The authors would welcome your comments additions or input into this work A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Other N -------------------------------------------------------- NA/SC.a
User: Nestlé's Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co Milk Products and Confectionery Address: 591 Lttle Collins St, Melbourne, VIC Revenue Use: 1915 Series: 2d Rarity Scale:
1915 Series 2d R4 Background: The company that would become Nestle was started in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. His first product was a milk-based food for babies unable to feed from their mothers. Within five years, Nestlé Milk was being sold around the world as a food for babies, old people and the sick. The company soon diversified into condensed milk, and later into the growing chocolate industry. Henri left the Company in 1875, but his name was retained and in 1905 the company merged with the “Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company,” which had been founded in 1866, to form the Nestlé Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, later to be simply known as Nestlé.
By 1906, Australia had become the second largest export market for Nestlé and in 1908 the company established itself in Australia. They had been in New Zealand since 1885. The company grew internationally and in Australia and in 1934 the Australian arm launched the product MILO.
Today Nestlé is now the world’s largest food and beverage business, with over 339,000 employees, 442 factories in 86 countries and sales of more than $130 billion in 2014.
Device: The NASC.a pattern is made from a 2 die device in a vertical format. It was one of 2 very similar (2 die vertical) devices that were purchased by the company in 1923/4. One was used in the Sydney office and the device that produced NASC.a was used at the Melbourne office.
Now it is very likely that both dies of the 2 die device will be found on revenues but to date all of the handful of reports have been for NASC.a which is the upper of the 2 heads of the device.
NASC.a has also been reported on the revenue stamps of NSW but this is most likely a misreport based on use of the NSW NASC device on NSW revenues. However we have not seen evidence of that usage so we do not report it.
The NASC.a device was in service over the period 1923 until at least 1946. Revenue use is rare but usage on postage stamps is more common and the proof of the 2 die structure of the device is found on the larger format Commemorative issues of the 1930’s which are large enough to carry strikes from both dies. Device: Vertical Two Die Related Patterns: Nil *Nestle web site
Henri Nestlé -------------------------------------------------------- NB.a
User: N B (unknown) Address: Unknown Revenue Use: 1886-1899 Series, inscribed 'STAMP DUTY' 1d (shades) Rarity Scale:
1886-1889 Series 1d R4 Background: Unknown Device: NB.a is a Temporary perfin pattern made by a Stamp Vendor and would have been in a single die format. Now given that it was a Temporary die there could be variation in the separation of the letters in different settings of the die, but these have not been reported. This suggests that the setting was of limited usage and this is borne out but the fact that the pattern is rare on both revenue and postage stamps. Postage stamp usage has been reported in 1911 however we have not seen this and all evidence that we have seen indicates that the device was used in the period around 1899.
Usage is restricted to the revenue and postage stamps of Victoria. Related Patterns: Nil -------------------------------------------------------- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Other © copyright 2011 |
