American Occupation Of France 1944-Please Help Me Locate?

I agree Geoff. What I've seen/heard about the Maury has been nothing short of fantastic, and it's been on my list for a couple of years. I have been relying on my 2010 Y&T, which I had purchased new for something like US$20.

You can always find someone who sells many of the "foreign" catalogs new here, but as they usually cater to specialists, they aren't cheap. I do purchase an above average amount of philatelic references, but the costs are such that I pretty much have to wait until I find a heavily discounted price. Every once in a while, someone here in the US will sell some imported catalogs for a total price very close to or even below discounted prices in the home country of publication. Then I'll snap it up. Otherwise I end up buying a used older edition. Sometimes someone overseas (not necessarily a stamp dealer) will be clearing out a stock they acquired at a great price (and yes, they discount the overseas shipping -- sometimes even free)!

US$20 for a 2016 Maury definitely meets my "cheapskate" price!




Thanks for pointing that out area66! I was wondering if one was available and hadn't gotten around to searching. You've saved me a lot of hunting. I'll look into it!

The Maury "Timbres de France" catalogue is now published by Spink, the London-based dealer and auctioneer.

The 2017 edition is hardback and is priced at £24.90.

Thanks, Nigel! At the Spinks website, it's £22.50, and they toss in a free La Collection La Fayette by Chauvin (£30 value)! That's an amazing price for a quality catalog that is 1000+ pages hardback.

However, they have a bug on their website and they are charging me £0 for both books! And unfortunately, shipping is £20 to the US! I got as far as the confirmation page with a total charge of £20. Of course £20 for both books is a great deal, but I don't to take advantage of the bug in their software.

I'm sure they'd catch the problem, but I didn't confirm the order. The correct cost of the book with shipping is a bit too steep compared to getting the 2016 Kindle version.

Well, I tried to email them to let them know of the shopping cart bug, but apparently the email address on their contact page is wrong. Quite surprised such a large established operation would have so many basic website problems.

I don't think it's a bug ; on Spink, you can but other books in the basket and it work, the problem is related to the The Maury, they probably just forget to enter something

anyways my entire set is "on a scott page" mint - hinged 1945.see page image..just for gp..

Nice Edw_kim! The key to both sets is the 10fr of the Supplemental Issue. I also just realized I had the 10cm and 10fr stamps interchanged on my album page. Guess I'm getting older much faster than I thought!

Humm, look more than a photocopy of a Scott page than an actual real Scott page.

Recently sold a couple of covers on ebay with some of these on them.

photocopy of the actual scott page,or actual scott page itself? I will have to check my scott inventory..wow ,i really thought something like that "would not have mattered".the only thing that matters are the actual stamps in great condition "quote un quote"..

I just check, and I don't have the 10F of 1944, I checked on ebay and as usual I end purchasing a full set. Anyway MNH at $ 8 , I don't think it's a bad deal

Ed don't take it bad, my comment was like a question, first thing that jump on my eyes was the page with the edge cut

Are they the same cover ? I don't think so... the bottom is address to the Red Cross POW division in Geneva with 1944 stamps and the top one have a Red Cross slogan with 1945 stamps , but the cancel are from different post office

EDIT ; oups I miss the word couple ..... lol

Ed , what Scott album is that, with Scott numbers, I guess a US speciality. National.... But I don't think they have France occuation stamps in it ...??????

EDIT : what an epic fail, I'm getting old, the BB ( international) do list scott # for the US section.

my BB look like this one, well on the other side of the page since it's the last edition ( something 199x) . the one on the pic should be 196x something edition

So what is that page ? , an older edition of BB that was listing those stamps in US ?