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Post by captphil211 on Dec 30, 2023 18:52:05 GMT
Ok, so I just got this picture thing worked out. Wow, third party hosting, I ain't done this stuff since Photobucket went south. Really takes me back. Anyhow, if any of you like French stamps, I have got the cat's meow for you. If, instead, you prefer to specialize in Austro-Hungarian newspaper stamps used in occupied Greece, ahhm, well, this ain't for you. France 117, used block of 12. And that's just to get started!
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Post by captphil211 on Dec 30, 2023 19:28:06 GMT
France 50, 1c olive green on pale blue, used, strip of four, leftmost stamp trimmed. Scott lists a variety, bronze green on light blue from 1872 and this may be it, but they have the same value. Note by the postmark that these were tucked away in a drawer for 20ish years, canceled in 1892.
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Post by captphil211 on Dec 30, 2023 19:51:48 GMT
France sc 90a, 4c violet brown, 1877, unused hinged. This was the first really new design after decades of stamps featuring Loius Napoleon or Ceres. French philatists name the early issues after their designers and this design is known as "Peace & Commerce" or "Type Sage." They are almost never centered well and more often under inked and blurry than not.
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Post by captphil211 on Dec 30, 2023 20:06:35 GMT
And this is "type Mouchon" or "The Rights of Man." Scott 118,20c brown violet, 1900, unused hinged. Once again, these were seldom well centered and often printed poorly.
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Post by captphil211 on Dec 30, 2023 20:40:15 GMT
To be frank(oops), I have two French albums: a vario-type album for my mint stamps and an old home-printed paper album for my used stamps. Ah, no, actually I have three French albums, there's another vario album for semi-postals. That's an adventure of its own. Oh, oh, oh, and I have French Community albums, do they count? There's an album for French Pacific, and an album for Reunion and SP&M, and another album for whatever else. So, after just three years, I feel I have a good start.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 1, 2024 0:13:00 GMT
France sc 134. 15c pale red, millesimee pair, 1902, unused hinged. First off, this is the redrawn Rights of Man design with the ornate shield for the value instead of the plain square tablet of 1900. I have seen the two designs confused among dealers on hipstamp. Open Your Eyes, people! Second, this is a millesimee pair. Googled, the word means "vintage," which in English has connotations of wine and nostalgia. Here it is about the year it was printed. French rotary press definitives were printed in two sheets across divided vertically by a gutter. At the second row of each pair of sheets, a number was printed on the gutter to mark the year of printing. Thus, this pair was printed in 1902. This stamp was also printed in 1903, and so "3" was on the gutter. French collectors originally kept millesimee pairs as blocks with the top margins of the sheets. More often now, only pairs are kept. My Maury catalog values this pair at €100.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 6, 2024 18:35:10 GMT
France J3 (1859), J4 (1863), J6 (1871). Like Ted, I'm usually not much interested in postage due stamps. But, well, the opportunity presented itself.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 6, 2024 19:10:43 GMT
France sc 151, 75c red lilac, sameuse lignee, 1926 and. 167, 20c red violet, sameuse camee, 1926. The Sower series is probably the 2nd most iconic French stamp design. They are much like the American Franklin/Washington stamps: iconic, ubiquitous, long lasting and mind-numbingly devious with many varieties listed in the French catalogs. Here are the two main versions of the Sower: sameuse lignee and sameuse camee, or lined and cameo. The engraver of both was our old friend Louis Muchon, who did the Rights of Man Design.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 6, 2024 19:49:28 GMT
France sc 175, 35c violet with Specimen overprint, 1925 unused hinged. French stamps oveprinted "SPECIMEN" were most often used for post office training purposes.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 6, 2024 20:03:19 GMT
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. This is another 167 and at first glance the bottom half of the zero is color. But look closely and a shadow of the number appears. Printing errors are numerous among the Sowers, but is this a legitimate error? I believe so, because the color is the same, just denser.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 12, 2024 1:46:22 GMT
Alright, this is from my France Semi-postal album. France sc B66-67, the Winged Victory issue for the Louvre Museum, August 1937, used on museum card. This is one of those things that make me really happy to be a collector. This pair of stamps featuring the Winged Victory of Samothrace was issued to benefit renovations at the Louvre in the summer of 1937. The two stamps were sold for 2.50fr with this nifty card, upon which you could stick the stamps and get the museum postmarks. I think that these were only avaliable at the Louvre, which kinda violates one of Scott's rules about inclusion. But that is just alright with me. These stamps are too classic to be unlisted. That means we all paid too much for them to see them footnoted. Also note that these do not have the usual + value that most semi-postals have. Why? Ask the Louvre... What follows are two Louvre postcards with the Winged Victory stamps, both from different hands. The first card portrayed the da Vinci painting which soon supplanted the Winged Victory as the iconic symbol of the Louvre, La Joconde...
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 12, 2024 1:58:31 GMT
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 12, 2024 2:07:01 GMT
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Post by cddstamps on Jan 15, 2024 11:52:32 GMT
very nice thanks for sharing. The more I see France and Colonies the more I want to see more. mostly my collection is all aviation related. as perhaps you have already seen so I won't repeat same images cheers
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 20, 2024 20:51:23 GMT
The Big Merson... Beginning in 1900, this design was used for the higher value rates. The designer was L. O. Merson. Since these were the first large French stamps (except for a 5fr Louis Nspoleon that no normal person can afford) I like to call this design the Big Merson. Well..., in France they call it the Merson Grand.... France sc 121, 40c red and pale blue, 1900, unused hinged.
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