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124 - "FRANCE LETTRES - a vintage collection, a surprising and tru…
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Estimate €500
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"FRANCE LETTRES - a vintage collection, a surprising and truly beautiful set of five Italian-style albums, 21 x 32 cm, with ‘electric’ bindings containing approximately one thousand one hundred (1,100) folded documents received by the collector, One thousand one hundred items glued onto sheets, a ‘genuine’ collection containing very fine letters and documents with many highlights worth highlighting and re-organising…: - 1 - Postage stamps / Postal Parcels / Tax & taxation / Military Exemption – War / numerous examples of military exemption cards for armies in active service / correspondence with occupied departments / Prisoner-of-war camps / Censorship / regimental stamps / Treasury and Post Office / temporary hospitals... etc... approximately 280 documents. - 2 - Telegraphic dispatches from the Second Empire / Telegrams from the Third Republic / various forms from the early 20th century: ‘Post & Telegraphs’, ‘Private Post’, various horse-drawn courier services / various money order forms (card money orders, letter money orders, distributions / letterheads for special rates and exemptions / tax services, collections, charges - Numerous letter tax stamps, recovered values, pre-cancelled stamps, early mechanical marks from private franking machines (1920s) - approximately 290 items. - 3 - BEFORE THE STAMP: postal marks and special stamps (Monarchy, Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Peers, the Emperor’s service, ministries, police, ministries, President of the Republic, liberated regions during the First World War, parliamentary elections, newspaper cancellation marks…), various departmental offices and special marks (postmen, date stamps, taxes, etc.). from 1880 onwards, envelopes franked with stamps of the Sage, Mouchon, Blanc and Semeuses types, etc. - approximately 170 items. - 4 - Cancellations on stamps of the Sage, Mouchon, Semeuses and Blanc types. Of note are 4 rare and extremely rare cancellations: the ‘grand drapeau’ flame, known as the ‘black flag’, from Paris, dispatched 12 January 1899; the machine was in service only sporadically from December 1898 to early February 1899. Sent to Béthune with an arrival postmark on the reverse. Valued at 3,000 francs in the 1994 Drefuss catalogue + 2 letters posted in Paris on 5 March and 6 June 1904, arriving in Béthune with a 7-line flag postmark featuring the letters ‘D’ and ‘RF’. Trial stamp, Drefuss 600 francs each, 1900 World’s Fair postmarks featuring various flag designs, Lyon Expo 1894, Daguins, perforated on letters with matching letterheads, New Year’s Day postmarks, etc. - approximately 225 items. - 5 - Letters with ‘sowing’ stamps, Peace stamps, commemorative stamps. Temporary overprints, 1924 Olympic Games, Treasury and Post Office, regimental postmarks, tax documents including a departmental hunting licence, general sequestration of property returned by the Germans, illustrated early mechanical postmarks (1930 Winter Sports), etc. 150 items. "
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About the sale SALE OF POSTAGE STAMPS
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Auction time 11/25/2026 at 10:00 AM
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