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BICENTENARY of the FRENCH REVOLUTION – SPECIAL commemorative…
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163
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BICENTENARY of the FRENCH REVOLUTION – SPECIAL commemorative…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50
Voluntary lot
Description
BICENTENARY of the FRENCH REVOLUTION – SPECIAL commemorative box set 1789–1989, limited edition of 1,500 copies.
Contains the complete set of sixteen official philatelic documents on Arches vellum paper, featuring first-day-of-issue postmarks, explanatory texts and illustrations from the ‘Historical Collection of French Postage Stamps’.
Folon’s birds (no. 2560) + Famous Figures of the Revolution (2564 to 2569) + matching booklet strip (BC 2570) + the 3 ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’ stamps (2573/75) + matching triptych (T 2576) + Painting by David (2591) + blocks featuring figures (2592/95) + strip featuring the Declarations of Human Rights (2602/05) + block on human rights (block 11).
The sixteen sheets in their blue cardboard box from the Postal Museum.
Issue price in 1989: 650 francs (99 euros).
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