Translation Of Philatelic Terms In The Maury Catalogue.

I recently acquired via auction an old album of French stamps.

In order to check for varieties not shown in Scott
I borrowed the Maury Catalogue de Timbres de France 2015
from the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library
http://greenefoundation.ca/library.html
If you live in the Toronto or GTA you should
check this place out.It is amazing.

I have to say it is just about the most detailed
specialized catalogue I have ever seen.

Even though I can understand some of the French
terms and use Google translate there are a few
of which I have no clue of.

For instance Google translates surcharge a cheval as
overload horse or piquage a cheval as
stitching horse.????
impression sur raccord comes out as printing connection
Pli accordeon is accordion fold.
I understand a fold in a stamp but an accordion fold?
Google can translate words more or less accurately but not
technical or in this case philatelic terms.

Here are a couple of sections from the Maury catalogue
and I would appreciate any help in translating these
and some of the others I have trouble with.

surcharge a cheval = off-center overprint
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...7&mfe=search

piquage a cheval = mis-perforated
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...6&mfe=search

sometimes, ebay search engine can be more helpful that trying to translate the translation.

kuhli is correct about `surcharge a cheval` being an overprint, but I don`t think it means off-center necessarily. I think the term `déplacéee` refers to off-center.

lol, "Surchage a cheval" is when the overprint is over the edge or over the perforations, "a cheval sur les perforations". off center will be décentrée and sometime déplacée, décalée

66, I knew you would come in and correct me! Thanks very much!

KGB, you was right....... I know that "à cheval" means "on it" , but on what ???, I have to check on my Yvert catalogue.( French from France have many expressions we don't use in Quebec ) for the perforations is the same "on the edge of the design" meaning cutting the design.

Well thanks a lot guys for all the help so far.

As with everything else, the more I use the catalogue
the easier it gets which of course adds to the enjoyment.

I finally found a resource which translates just
about every French philatelic term into English


http://www.hgitner.com/news/french_dictionary.pdf

And I found it right here on SCF in a thread called
Question for classic/post classic France specialists.

https://goscf.com/t/32071&whichpage=1


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