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Private Revenue Perfins of Western Australia An Elsmore Coath production The authors would welcome your comments additions or input into this work B C D F G H I K L M N O P R V W Other L -------------------------------------------------------- LLG.a
User: Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Life and General Insurance provider Address: 68 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA. Revenue Use: 1922-30 issue 1d, 3d, 6d, 1/-, 2/-, £1 Rarity Scale: 1922-30 issue 1d R4, 3d R4, 6d R4, 1/- R4, 2/- R4, £1 R4 Background: *Liverpool and London
and Globe were an English insurer established in
1836, (until 1865 they were registered as "The
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance
Company") who started operating in Sydney in the
1850’s and in 1851 they acquired the "Australian
Colonial and General Life Assurance Company". Their
business expanded slowly from there Sydney main
office and they established offices in Tasmania and
Western Australia as well as Brisbane in 1911. Device: The Perth LL/G device was
one of a range of devices which produced a similar
pattern in the LL/G format that came into service in
the late 1920’s. These devices were located in
Perth (this device) Launceston, Hobart, and Sydney.
They were all single head devices with the exception
of the Sydney device which had 3 heads. The similarities in the patterns
produced by these devices has lead to some confusion
and miss reporting of these patterns in earlier
publications. For instance HAPP*1
lists three LL/G patterns as being found on WA
revenue stamps. This is not the case as these
reports refer to the true Perth device but also
include the Hobart device and one of the die heads
of the Sydney device. This is likely due to the
similar structure and appearance of the patterns and
the poor quality of some of the relevant reference
images in HAPP. This Perth LL/G device is also
found on postage stamps of Australia over the period
1928–1942. Perth postmarks predominate. Related Patterns: Refer to other
Liverpool and London and Globe patterns in: NSW: LLG.a LLG.b LLG.c LLG.d LL/G.e
LL/G.f LL/G.g LL/G.h LL/G.i LL/G.j
L.&G.&G./INSURANCE./Co..a QLD: LLG.a L&G&G./INSURANCE./Co..a Other - Section 2 Commercial Overprints: The/Liverpool/&/London,/&/Globe/Insurance Coy./Limited.a TAS: LL/G.a LL/G.b *'Life Insurance in Australia' by A C Gray (1977) *1 'Handbook of Australian Private Perfins' (Mathews 2003) -------------------------------------------------------- B C D F G H I K L M N O P R V W Other © copyright 2011 |
