Questons About A Couple French Stamps

I'm struggling to id these Frenchies. Any help is appreciated.

1. The only color I see when I look at this is black however the book does not list only black...


2. It's hard to make out which type this is because of the postmark, however, is it safe to say it's a Type II, 78a inperf., because the type 1 does not list a imperf? If so, what would the value be, because it only lists the unused price.


3. I'm coming up with Scott 58 for this. Does that seem correct?


4. I'm completely lost on these last two. This one appears to be overprinted with "0.40", and possibly the numbers below it as well.


5. This one doesn't seem like a postage stamp in some ways. It says September 1922 along the bottom.


Thanks for any help.

The second one you show is not a stamp but a cutout from a stamped paper, like an envelope or postcard

Peter

The first one you show is from the second Pax and Mercury set of 1877-1899. It was issued in black only!

Peter

Do not have catalog handy so going by memory
#1 is a Type 2 later issue with the n of inv under the "U" - color is correct,
#2 can't tell from scan which type - the date of 01 seems much later than the issue. I don't think this is a valid stamp
#3 should be Ceres head #58
The others?

4 is the top half of a Belgian revenue stamp. Mine are all cut on the bottom and not perfed.

5 is one of a set of 5 values for the 1922 Rouen aviation meet, usually referred to as semi-officials.

[edit: Regarding #5, is the image on your screen representative of what you have? Normally, there is a value in the left circle, and these were made with a pretty high production value (that is, they look nice). I'm not sure what yours is, but the image doesn't look as good as the typical stamps look.]

This is what the high-value of the 1922 Rouen set looks like:



The five values are in five different colors.

For what it's worth, here's the back of #5.

At first glance I thought it felt "plastic-y" but now I see it's paper. ... The thickness is consistent with a stamp.

This one, posted in another topic, is of somewhat similar ink quality... (Yes, I do use the search function!)


https://goscf.com/t/21992

Can someone help me understand this Scott book. As far as I can tell, the only thing #1 could be is Sc 86, 86a or 87.

They list the colors as black & lily blue, black & gray blue or black & Prussian blue.

My understanding then, is this stamp should be one of those COMBINATIONS... However, it's all black (from what I can tell).

Am I interpreting the meaning of the color abbreviations correctly, or does that description somehow leave room for a 'black only'?

Thank you.

Hi JessEm. By "Scott book" I assume you mean the Scott catalog. I do not own a Scott catalog for France so I have no idea what they do with this older issue. According to www.stampworld.com the 2nd issue of this stamp is blue. Your stamp looks like it might have been blue but has faded somewhat. Hope this helps>

Peter

In Scott, the first color is the ink, and the italicized color is the color of the paper. If a listing shows two colors, no italics, then you are looking for a bicolor stamp.

C.

Thanks All.

Would I be out of line asking for a book value on that Belgian Revenue Stamp?

Could the imperf Aviation 'stamp' be a cut out from an advertisement?

The second one may be French Colonies #31.

Puzzler, When I think of an advertisement, I think of the pages of a magazine, and the cover, but the paper on this doesn't really jive with those. I suppose anything is possible though.