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United Fruit Company
The United Fruit Company was formed in 1899 when the Boston Fruit Company merged with several other
companies that produced, imported, and marketed bananas from the Caribbean islands, Central America, and
Colombia. The United Fruit Company established its Jamaican offices at 40 Harbour Street, Kingston, moving
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there in 1920 and remaining until the 1950s, this encompassing most of the period of use of the UFC perfin.
36-hole perforator (initial state)
Used August 1919
This perforator appears to have had only a single die, as stamps bear just a single perfin irrespective of their
size, and various orientations are found:
All the above stamps are on Multiple Crown CA watermarked paper, in use from July 1919 until February 1921
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Recorded dates of use of the intact UFC perfin range from 1oth February 1919 to some time in 1921.
