The Stamps Of Madagascar : On Album Pages.

Thanks Mirman,
I collect both, if I can.
Best copies on Steiner, then make personal pages for any clear Pmks, that turn up.

Madagascar (early) have some lovely designs, amongst which............

1930
Steiner Page 13.

1896
Postage Dues.
Steiner Page 37.

1943
Steiner Page 22.

Interesting triangle cancel on the red 45c stamp (Sc #100). Anyone familiar with what that indicates? Nothing similar in my (smallish) collection.

Thanks! gmot

Guess:
Postage Due.
I have a sheet of Ethiopia ? I think, with the same triangular surcharge? opt?

No, apologies.
Ethiopia had T=Taxe = Postage Due.
Your triangle looks familiar though.

Thank you, perhaps it is the underpaid/postage due handstamp found with "T" in a triangle in France/French colonies. I was unable to find another example in my French African (and my French collection is almost non-existent).

These two interesting resources both discuss the use of the triangle T in French colonies (Senegal and Indo-China).

https://www.collectorsclub.org/wp-c...ndencies.pdf

http://www.sicp-online.org/icp/issu...elivery).pdf

In my Madagascar stamp, either the T was not present (as in your examples) or perhaps too faint to register - on a close up scan I can see some ink in the centre of the triangle.

Hi Rod,

I believe the "B" in a pointing-up triangle is a postage due precancel from Paris.

I have a similar cancel on a 1 franc postage due stamp.

Thanks Nigel..Saved.

Gmot.
Guess : I think the blank triangle would be a subsidiary hammer, to cancel postage due stamps on cover, without necessitating another dated cancel.
It explains the triangles on the French, but not on your apparently mint Madagascar.

Solved
The triangle served to obliterate tax stamps or postage stamps used as tax stamps. The empty triangle exists in different sizes.

Confirms my guess.

http://marcophilie.org/x/x-tri-i.html


Triangle B

Brilliant - thank you! My Madagascar stamp is not mint, so presumably was used in the colony as a tax stamp then.

Andoany (aka Hell-Ville, Helville)
Andoany, (after Anne Chretien Louis de Hell), is a city in Diana Region, Madagascar with a population estimated at 39,500 in 2013.
Nosy Be (aka Nossi Be - my preference)
Amazing the Eastern coastline is so straight.

Sc#34 1896 10c

Recently been getting into Madagascar and dependencies.
Scott no. 17 (1895) on cover 1896: Tamatave (Madagascar)/Bordeaux(France).
Standard maritime cancel on the reverse.La Reunion à Marseille No.4.

1938 Steiner Page 18.

1946 Steiner Page 25.

1922 Steiner Page 4.

1930 Steiner Page 14.

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Outbid at auction, 1st November 2014
Sc# 226 Type A15 Jean Laborde FRANCE LIBRE Opt
1942

CV: $5000
Last bid I saw, 24 hrs to go was $180