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Is illustration D5 in Scott correct? I have several similar stamps except the top label says republique francaise instead of postes francasis.
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Perhaps you could show your stamps and the illustration - Scott numbers don't mean anything to many of us.
Edit - now seen Don's picture. I wonder where Scott obtained that stamp? |
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| Edited by GeoffHa - 03/07/2020 09:28 am |
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Yes - it's the sort of thing that the Pétain government issued - except that, in this case, it didn't! |
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I could be mistaken, but I believe the "Republique Francaises" stamps are the correct postage due issue. I think the "Postes Francaises" stamps were issued by the Vichy Government , but never placed on sale in Indochina. This means that the Scott illustration (The Vichy printing) is just wrong. |
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| Edited by restoman - 03/07/2020 12:12 pm |
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I should note here that my Scott catalog is the 2012 edition. My specialized Classic 2016 edition is not a help here because the "Postes" stamp would have come out after 1940. I know Scott has begun listing and pricing the unissued Vichy printings. Does anyone have a current Scott Catalog to confirm this? |
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| Edited by restoman - 03/07/2020 1:36 pm |
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These "stamps" aren't listed in Maury, so I don't know where Scott has unearthed them. |
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Scott's probably made the error when they switched from black & white images to color. Have they corrected it yet in the current catalogs? |
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Posted 03/07/2020 09:00 am
