The Stamps Of France : By Page.

I wonder if any of you has any thoughts on these two items, which veer between "possible" and "dubious"? Both were part of a large collection of French material that I bought some time ago. The first, on journal piece to Colombia, via England, was noted in the overall lot description, and was also noted as "not guaranteed". The 1 Franc is barely tied to the piece, whilst the address appears to be above at least some of the postal markings. Interestingly, the previous owner had obviously mulled this over, and had photographed the item, and added pointers.

The second item looks less dubious!

Hi GeoffHa: The cover was sent via England to Santamarta which is
actual Colombia.At the time of this letter it was known as Nueva granada.
The postmark indicats 1852.The postal tarif for Colombia via England was 1F,50 at that time based on the tarif scale of the 1st of august 1849 for
a 7.5g letter.This was the tarif for the Atlantic side of Colombia.
The 1fr. and 2 25c stamps thus are sufficient.
The stamps have the full Paris star cancel.
The ultramar 1 centavo added tax upon arrival.
I think this is an authentic and nice cover.The 2 25c stamps were cut
in a hazardly fashion; but that was not infrequent in those days.

The second cover is cancelled with a small numeral lozenge cancel and should
read 2268 inside,for the town of Nevers.
It looks dubious to me.In the top cancel I see a 2 then a space, then a 8.
So it could be ok too.

Perf12,
amazing knowledge, enjoy your posts.

Oh I forgot too add that the 2 25c are yt no.10.With the small
B under the neck.That's an added bonus for sure..
The Diaz Granados family was important in all that area;link with
all the Granados..(He must of been important in Santamarta)
https://fr.scribd.com/doc/58489909/...z-Granados-1

Thank you, perf - fantastic. I was hoping you'd see this!

Yes I do. Both items seems to be non-collectable, so you'd better send them to me Geoff
(Read: Envy )

French Post Offices in China.

Any members care to cast an experienced eye over this motley crew ?
Received at the bottom of a page of Australian Stamps.
They don't fill me with confidence.

Larger scans on request.
Thanks.

Be interested to see others' thoughts. These tend to come with warning triangles in the catalogue. I must confess to difficulty in picking the fakes of this series, which is complicated by the fact that Hirschburger forged both stamps and overprints/surcharges, and that the key warning points may be covered by said overprints or cancellations.

Difficult overprints. I have some doubts about Yt: 18 & 17.Only because
of the the chinese characters,also a bit lean.Yt:44 is a later overprint and there were no serifs in the letters so I think it's o.k..Just my first thoughts. (These stamps are best and rarer on non registered covers; Most of the time collectors would send these stamps out too fellow collectors or to themselves registered!)

Thank you very much Perf12,
appreciate your time, I have Y&T somewhere, I'll dig it out and see if they are addressed.

Current Yvert sales catalogue - some attractive pictures!

https://issuu.com/yvert/docs/vente-...rt-et-tellie

Indeed Geoff,
shame one cannot save.

I linked the flip book. You might try the PDF -

https://www.yvert.com/pdf/Vente-sur...ier-2018.pdf

Jolly good Geoff !
Thank you so much,
Saved in my France Catalogues folder.

Another Yvert sale catalogue for you, Rod

https://www.yvert.com/CT-1538-vente...052018-PHILA