The Stamps Of France : By Page.

I can see these last pages, probably Ciletaliph¨s suggestion did the trick?
Truly beautiful stamps and pages In my opinion, no other country has modern stamps that look as magnificent as those of France - only rivaled by the Slania issues of Sweden.

Hi all,
to be honest, rather than employ the url option,
I thought I would give the Image Resizer a shot, thinking it would be hard pressed to reduce a 948 Kb image,
but no, it handled it down to 124Kb well.
I'll use this option going forward.......

1966
Steiner circa Page 16



1966
Page17

1966
Would be Steiner Page 18



1966
Page 19



1967
Sc#1172
Example of part LH Pane, with Selvedge and Control Number.

While I don't generally use Photobucket (except on another forum that does not accept uploads), here is an example of a page hosted there:



It does not have the problem Rod is having. In photobucket I click on "Direct" to get the link, paste it in SCF, then wrap it with the IMG tags.

Cheers Brian.
I have become expert now on using the "Image resizer" so all is good. :)

Nice Polynesia.......I note at the last few auctions, French Polynesia is fetching staggering prices, very popular.

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Rod

I'd noticed that French colonial stamps in general do well at auction, but some areas - eg French Antartcic, which I'd have written off as pure philatelic stuff like the Falklands - do particularly well. Any reason you're aware of?

Geoff

Hi Geoff,
Yes, I agree, French Antarctic has always done well, French Polynesia especially so, in the auctions I attend.
No reason that I am aware of, Auctions in general in North America
are getting high values at the moment, I just cannot compete with
the exchange rate, and the shipping.

I have not bought anything of note for the past 10 months.

Yesterday I bought 8 pages of mint Belgian semi postals for $9 plus $2.50
shipping (US $)
That was just a fluke, I put in about 5 bids on lots and went to bed.

The only reason I can guess at, is that these types of collection disciplines offer the collector the opportunity to have a "complete" collection within reach,
perhaps the emmissions were also controlled so the numbers were lower,
which always adds value later.

1940
Semi Postal
Steiner Page 46



1940
German Occupation : Lorraine.
Steiner Page 75

Note : The 50 pfennig issue refused ink on portions of the stamp, for whatever reason, under the loupe, the damage is below the Overprint.

Free gift from Susan SCF,
wherever you are... Thanks Susan.

France Scott #58 study.

From an design by Jaques-Jean Barre in 1848, of Indian Ink on paper paper-board,
The profile of the Greek Goddess Demeter, known in ancient Rome as Ceres,
Goddess of the harvests, and of abundance.

Headress Garland of wheat sheaf, a bunch of grapes, with tresses tied with sprig of olive branch. (in "Bordeaux issue" look for "YON" in the bunch of grapes)

Stamps, Postmarks Sundry.





Varieties
Unknown Mutilated Stationery piece. Postmark 9 over 4 ?



I first thought a possible forgery, now think it is from one of the damaged plates
top frame margin re-touched.

Several interesting postmarks here Rod!
Maybe the unidentified "ML Y" (bottom on the 2nd page) could be from the railway Marseille-Lyon?

Hi Jon,
I'll note that in my album.
Other than that, completely out of my depth,
I am a newbie with France Stamps.




Answer 9 over X

http://marcophilie.org/

I'd say you're quite an advanced newbie Rod
I am myself no capacity at all on France - I just happen to have an affection for the postmarks of the classical French

Your Paris etoille "9/x" is cool - I'm missing that one in my collection. Along the same line, you've got yourself a GC "2240/E" as well (top of 2nd page). Just thought I'd mention it as your write-up doesn't.

Keep it up !

Hi Rod.
Your 'Unknown Mutilated Stationery piece' is a cut down perforated item. There are some perf remainders on the bottom right.

I hope you don't mind me adding one of my Steiner pages where I used the blank space to add some of the shades I have.