France Cancellations - Show And Tell

Wonderful stuff AnthonyUK!! I would have brought that potential Paris Star '40' for 'certification' - looks like a '4' to me. (well, for whatever my judgement is worth, as I was just corrected for mistaking a '7' for an anchor! )

The Marcophille site offers some guidance when it comes to indicating rarity/value of different strikes on each French stamp, but not so for the used abroad stuff. May I ask - which catalog are you guys refering to for the french used abroad - Yvert or Maury? The Scott Classical is improving, but still has quite a poor coverage.

btw - thanks for the compliment AnthonyUK!

Great pages, Blaamand. It is nice to be able to view those stamps together.

Cjd - thanks! I'm quite pleased with the excel presentation, as it allows me to sort the lines/inventory on whatever combination/order I like, eg. by year, by country, continent, cat value, design, cancel, condition and lots of other different parameters. In that way, I could easily sort the list to show only the forerunners with French design on top of the list.
A stamp-idiot like me like that kind of options!

For catalogues for France I use Maury, Y+T and SG. For completeness I also have an older Michel too.
The best list of PC and GC is wikipedia for me.

I've enhanced the '40' a bit more.
It is possibly a 10 with a few random marks.

The stamp used is not from the known period of usage so I would guess

Close call anyway!

Postage due stamps and other markings on a 1900 Paris postcard:

Please let me bump this marvelous thread with a question:
I just found a sc. #33 / Yv. #29a with a losange gros chiffres mark, which doesn't raise any question in itself. However - the GC at hand is in red ink. My reference site does only list GC in black or blue for this particular stamp.http://marcophilie.org/x/x-cot2-i.html The red GC is listed for other stamps with significant premium in value, but no mention for my stamp.


Does anybody have a better reference listing the red GC for no.33 ?

Thanks for reading, Jon

I don't know much about cancellations on stamps from France but here's what I have. I apologize if the pics are sideways etc, having technical difficulties at the moment.

my oldest cds

Nice cds and stamp, Mike Unusual centring for this issue.

Anyone with knowledge on red inked GC cancels?

Berlin postal express #23 cancel on Germany Michel #1 with red Paris receiving cancel. 2 day delivery!

I'm not knowledgeable about French cancellations, so any information would be appreciated. Thanks.