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Return To Catalogue - Firm chops letters A-J - Firm chops letter K - Firm chops letters N-Z - Straits Settlements 1867 issue - Straits Settlements 1868-1901 - Straits Settlements cancels
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The stamps of Straits Settlements are almost always heavily cancelled, most of the time they also bear firm chops (as a protection against theft). Some of them are large enough to cover three individual stamps. The following website http://www.michelhoude.com shows many of such chops and provides very useful information. More information on some firms that used these chops: http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/seapage:233_675. A list of forwarding agents can be found at: http://pbbooks.com/webfa.htm
Straits Settlements firm chops on early stamps, K
Examples of such chops:
"JOHN LITTLE & Co" several types exist.
"LORRAIN" ("& GILLESPIE"?)
Another "LORRAIN & GILLESPIE PAID" cancel in an
ellipse
"STAMPED AND ?? SINGAPORE MACLAINE FRASER & CO"?
Also "M.F.&Co" for Maclaine Fraser & Co.
"Forwarded MACLAINE FRASER & Co SINGAPORE", also
exists in blue.
"W.MANSFIELD & Co SINGAPORE"
"MATHIEU & CO PINANG"
"M.B.I.Ld" in violet: Mercantile Bank of India Ltd
"M.F.&Co": see under Maclaine Fraser & Co.
"Mc ALISTER & CO SINGAPORE" in two lines in violet.
Also "Mc ALISTER & Co" in one line. There are in
total 7 different types of this company. The company also used a
perfin "McA & Co LTD" (I've seen this on King
George V stamps).
"WM Mc.Kerrow & Co. FORWARDED SINGAPORE"
"M.D.& Co." in a blue box from Martin Dyer &
Co. Next to it in a red box. Two other types exists of this
company.
"FORWARDED BY MIDDLETON, HARRISON & Co."
"MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA SINGAPORE" in an ellipse with
date in the center
Straits Settlements firm chops on early stamps, N-Z
