France - Mercury 1939 - Type I Or Type II?? Please Help

Once again my Maury catalog is failing me. It is listing the Mercury stamps with Type I and type II for the 30c and the 70c, however it reveals no secrets for how to differentiate the two types....



ok, type II are from coils, but still perforated on all 4 sides as far as I known, so how do I recognise a type II? Can anyone help? Much appreciated!!

Jon

Hi:
http://www.timbre-mercure.fr/Le-30c...rticularites

Merci pour le lien, perf12 - Thanks for the link !

Perf12 - thank you very much for your help, we can always count on you for French material.

Honestly I did not manage to clearly differentiate between the '3's in the illustration, seems to be a rather vague difference. It even said on the website one need a strip of more than 11 to be sure it's from a coil. Then I struggle to understand why it has been defined as a different type. It's how it is I suppose, thanks anyway!

THe differences in TYPES I & II are not evident.
I type II the small c should be well curved in the back and closer too the zero.In the 70c Type II ;the corners are at right angles...

Thanks again perf12! Now the 70c had much more obvious differences.

So I've checked mine, and something seems odd... I have 15 copies of 70c stamps, and only 3 of them have the cut corners as indicated for Type I above - the remaining 12 all have sharp corners, as Type II. However, the catalog value for Type II versus Type I ( 32€ versus 0,1€), makes me think I got something wrong? Seems unlikely I should be fortunate to have that many of the much more valuable type and only a few of the common type?

Could it be opposite?

The right stamp below has a sharp UR corner, and should then be Type II - which makes it a roulette/ coil stamp. However the stamp has a selvage on the right side....?




The left stamp has cut corner in UR as Type I, and a selvage on top. I guess this kind of selvage were normal for stamps produced in sheets, and if so this stamp can also not be a coil stamp/Type II.

I corrected the post.Blaamand your right about the types;got mixed up..

perf12 to the rescue again With your correction it all makes perfect sense, thank you so much for your generous assistance.

So type II has the cut corner (for the 70c)

I think I'll simply forget about Type I / II for the 30c, unless someone come up with a more distinct characteristics for identification.