Balsan Encheres
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2nd World War - DOCUMENT PRECURSE RESISITANCE / LIBERATION.
See original version (French)
97
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2nd World War - DOCUMENT PRECURSE RESISITANCE / LIBERATION.
See original version (French)
Estimate
€100
Voluntary lot
Description
2nd World War - DOCUMENT PRECURSE RESISITANCE / LIBERATION.
PERFORATED TIMBER * "EXP PS" of the first OFFICIAL PHILATELIC EXHIBITION in ANJOUN in aid of PRISONERS OF WAR.
Perforation ( Yvert n° 511 d ) on 70c orange portrait of Marshal Pétain.
Stamp on a Franchise Militaire postcard, large cancellation of 15 August 1943 illustrated with the Château de Saumur; also bears the stamp of the "Centre d' entraide des prisonniers rapatriés de Saumur". Sold from 14 to 16 August, print run 4,992 copies.
* This exhibition was organised by the Union Philatélique Saumuroise and authorised by the authorities. The club's leading members involved in the Resistance came up with this "wink" perforation, which stood for "Explosions, Plactic, Sabotage".
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ID: 87497309
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