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FRANCE LIBERATION - SEVEN LETTERS, SEVEN POSTAGE LABELS (sin…
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188
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FRANCE LIBERATION - SEVEN LETTERS, SEVEN POSTAGE LABELS (sin…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50
Voluntary lot
Description
FRANCE LIBERATION - SEVEN LETTERS, SEVEN POSTAGE LABELS (single or combined) featuring stamps from the series, issued in London, Marianne by Dulac, commemorative postmark FIRST FLIGHT on the South American route :
- with 1 F 50 red stamp + 60c blue stamp + Metz coat of arms; large-format commemorative postmark dated 11 March 1947, “CENTENARY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS”, Paris.
- 29 May 1963, from Colmar to Tassin – postage consisting of ten stamps (5 x 2 F 40 red + 80c green + 4 x 3 F bronze + 2 x 10c blue.
- 24 May 1945 to Gagny – single 2 F brown stamp on letter.
- 30 March 1945, from Villefranche-sur-Saône to Lyon. Postage: 2 F 50 with 40c blue + 50c orange + 60c blue-grey + 1 F purple.
- 27 July 1945 – Villefranche to Lyon – Postage at 1 F 10: 10c blue + 30c yellow + 70c brown.
- 26 July 1945 – Roanne to Lyon - Postage at 2 F: 1.20 F olive + 80c green.
- From Paris, 18 October 1945 to Buenos Aires – postage 20 F orange + ‘Libération’ stamp no. 739 - Aircraft entry into service: handwritten note ‘by Lionel Marmier’ – On the reverse, various Argentine postmarks and ‘VIA AERA’ return marks.
LIONEL de MARNIER: Giant Latécoère seaplane “LATE 631” operating the Biscarosse–South America route via Dakar - Named in honour of the pilot Marnier, who died in mid-air and was lost at sea on 30 December 1944 whilst flying a twin-engine Lockheed aircraft on his return from Algiers. - Marnier, a prominent member of the Resistance and a pilot with the Free French Forces, was the founder of the FFAL’s “Lorraine” bomber unit.
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