Australia SG2 - Anyone recognize this perfin?

with a little photoshop magic we can see it reads V O Co
Very Old Company?

any hope that narrows it down for our Aussie friends.

Thank you kindly James. It is a 1d Kangaroo (first watermark).

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The Vacuum Oil Company was the first oil company established in Australia. Prior to this other
brands of oil based products were marketed by overseas companies through their Australian agents.

The company set up their Queen Street, Melbourne, branch in February 1895, less than 30 years
after Vacuum first started operations in the US. Vacuum Oil's first salesman in Australia, Mr David
Clarke, sold the company's first barrel of lubricating oil to a gold mining operation at Eaglehawk,
near Bendigo, on his first day in the job.

In March 1904, Vacuum Oil was officially incorporated under Victorian Law as a proprietary
company, and in 1906 the company issued Australia's first ever chart of "Recommendations to
Motorists" covering about 200 makes of car.

By 1908, Vacuum was growing rapidly and merged with the Colonial Oil Co, a company marketing
kerosene and motor spirit, adding to Vacuum's specialty lubricant products. In 1916, Vacuum
introduced its "Plume" and "Laurel" brands to the Australian market and a year later brought its first
100 gallon, horse drawn tank wagon into service.

As motor vehicles became more popular in Australia, Vacuum expanded its operations. In 1924
Vacuum opened its first bulk petroleum products terminal at Pulpit Point in Sydney and took
delivery of its first imported bulk oil products cargo, a 1.5 million gallon shipment carried from the
United States by the tanker "HT Harper".

A decade later, Vacuum introduced "Ethyl", Australia's first Super grade motor spirit. Around the
same time in the US, Vacuum's parent company, Vacuum Oil Inc, merged with the Standard Oil
Company of New York to become Socony Vacuum, then Socony Mobil that ultimately became
Mobil Corporation. Vacuum replaced the famous Plume brand name with Mobilgas in 1954.

Thank you to everyone for helping me to identify this one.

Wild guess :

The genesis may have come from part of the discovery process.

Vacuum Oil was founded in 1866 by Matthew Ewing and Hiram Bond Everest, of Rochester, NY. The lubrication oil was an accidental discovery while attempting to distill kerosene. Everest noted that the residue from the extraction was suitable as a lubricant. Soon after, the product became popular for use by steam engines and the internal-combustion engines.

These fellows come over as a couple of nefarious characters.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith flew from England to Australia on Vacuum distillates (but then under the name of "Plume")



Australian Cinderella label  Plume

ou are an amazing source of knowledge Rod! 

Speaking of Australian perfins?  Does anyone know anything about this one?  It looks like BMC, but some of the holes aren't punched all the way through.

I found this Australian perfin site on the web.  They list BMC as the Brisbane Municipal Council.

Yes, the Island in the cancel is a mystery. 

I followed your link to the City of Brisbane wikipedia page and the map shows an island to the east.  Found that this is Moreton island, but it wasn't made part of Greater Brisbane until 1974.

In reading about Moreton Island I found this interesting tidbit on Wikipedia and learned what a dugong was...never heard of them before.
A salt-water lagoon on the island was used as a temporary home to a dugong called Pig. Pig was the youngest dugong ever successfully reared in captivity.[12] The dugong was placed in the lagoon to increase its natural instincts before being released into the wild.
From perfins to dugong's named Pig..how's that for taking something off topic.

Nice work Jen B,   you possibly have it, "visit moreton island " or similar,  but highly specialised collecting.
I just insert "island" into the name of the image,  in case I need to search for it years down the track.

Yes, we love our Dugongs here in Oz.   

Manatees are goofballs sometimes.  ha ha



Ryan

I hope this is the right place to post another query about a perfin
_{(If not, could a mod please move the post)}

I have a 1937 50th anniversary of NSW stamp with an odd perfin. It's obviously a company one, but does anyone know which company?

The perfin is P.D & Co (albeit pef'd upside down).

Here's the stamp, and the back (for clarity).





Thanks for any help you might be able to give me.

L.