French Stamp- Air Post ?

Can someone please help with information about this French stamp.

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A Google image search, using post_pe's image, reveals some possible additional info
https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ogbl

Don

A 1920 precursor to French air-mail issues, known as "Guynemer", issued as yours and with a surcharge. CV around €20 mint.

Here is the stamp with overprint :
"Meeting Aéronautique de Buc
Octobre 1920"
(Buc is a small town,very close to Versailles)

I posted a number of scans and snippets from Maury and American Philatelist on another forum. Unfortunately, they were hosted on photo_ucket. I can dig out a hard drive later this evening that should have the original scans.

The information has been dropped from newer editions of Maury, so you'd need a 2009 (or thereabouts) to read several paragraphs on these.

rod contacted Michel back in 2015, and actually got a reply as to why they don't list them. I don't understand why Sanabria doesn't (didn't) list them. They're certainly interesting.

They were also used on airmail from French Morocco.

The stamp was designed by Léon-Henri Ruffe (not Riole)
Ruffe engraved this Red Cross stamp from 1918 and most stamps from the "Orphans" series

I admit that I didn't think tath it's a stamp at all. It looked me as a Cinderella. That's something new tath I learned ,from the discussion .

The original excerpt from American Philatelist Vol 31 - 2 (1919) does list Ruffe (not Roile).

The picture below was used in Ouvré's design of a stamp issued on 7 November 1940, after the establishment of the fascist Vichy regime, although it would have been prepared before the fall of the Third Republic (a further, rather poorly designed stamp was issued in 2017). Guynemer shot down fifty-four enemy planes. He died, another victim of German militarism, on the Ypres front on 11 September 1917. "Lorsque l'on n'a pas toute donné, on n'a rien donné".

This is the person depicted on the Air Mail stamp,yes ?

Capt Guynemer on two french cinderellas


1944: fiftieth anniversary



1937 : from "Les Ailes brisées" (Broken Wings) booklet of 10 "stamps"