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Netherlands
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Hi, I got this blue 25 centime stamp from France, depicting Ceres. It was placed in my album under '1870'. I am not aware of imperforate blue 25 Ceres stamps from that or following years? It seems to me this stamp is from 1849-1850, right?   |
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United Kingdom
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Or French Colonies ... or cut-down perforated ...  |
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Canada
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The tightness of the margins is suspicious, think I can see perf traces at the bottom margin. |
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Nice even zero width margins says trimmed perfs to me. Imperf and sloppy just don't get than even... |
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United States
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I know almost nothing about French non-colony stamps and the first thing I thought when I saw this stamp was "this was trimmed." Completely anecdotal; but just does not look right. |
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Australia
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My 2014 Classic Specialised has the French Colonies 25c at $13 and the France 25c at $40
Considering we're not talking about vast sums of money I'm surprised somebody bothered to trim the Colonies issue.
Given there is a 23 year gap between the two, does anyone know if the same plate was employed? |
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Bobby - I think the trimming would have been that of the French perforated 25c stamp issued after 1871. |
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Yes, must tattoo that on my wrist. The 1871-72 Colonies issues were printed from the same plates as the first French issue. |
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Netherlands
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In meantime I compared a few stamps supposedly truly from 1849, and I definitely get your points. Wasn't a bad decision after all from the original owner of my album to put the stamp under '1870'. 60+ years ago he apparently figured the same.... |
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The Yvert-Tellier catalog mentions 3 types for this stamp (with perforations)   The stamps for the colonies are the same as the stamps for France with the only difference that they are not perforated. I hope it will help you  |
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Posted 02/16/2021 11:18 am
