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France Blanc Of 1900 No. 111-H Vert Sur Fond Jaune

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Posted 01/26/2026   4:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add littbarski to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
hello the mentioned stamp is known on yellow background. I see different versions, which is the real one :) ? Is the yellow all over the paper or only inside the design?

here two examples:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wP8A.../s-l1600.jpg
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0KEA.../s-l1600.jpg

Probably it should look like the first link?
But both don't look like the one here in the auction catalogue, image no. 614
https://stampauctionnetwork.com/le/cat35.pdf

But this image quality is too bad to see anything :)
so anybody ever seen an example in real life or online?
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Posted 01/27/2026   03:17 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Both look very suspicious. Below listing suggest the paper has a straw-yellow colour. The two you link to look like someone has been creative with crayons.




See lot 918:
https://behr.fr/vente/9/72
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Edited by NSK - 01/27/2026 03:29 am
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Posted 01/27/2026   03:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Your auction link appears to coincide with the listing I posted above.
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Posted 01/27/2026   07:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
An error occured during the 1906 printing when some sheets were printed by accident on light yellowish paper which was used for the 1906 1F Tax stamp of New Caledonia. It's Rare.
If genuine.
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Edited by perf12 - 01/27/2026 6:07 pm
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Posted 01/27/2026   08:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littbarski to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thank you very much both!
perf12, is it this stamp, or which tax stamp?
https://www.tmphilatelie.com/media/.../8/18425.jpg

and: "sur fond" I would understand like some background color printing, but you say the whole paper is yellowish, correct? (but only the front or also the back?)

I myself actually don't have any yellowish stamp just saw the listings and wondered :)
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Edited by littbarski - 01/27/2026 08:35 am
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Posted 01/27/2026   10:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cjpalermo1964 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The whole paper should be yellowish. Both ebay offers show fakes. Behr is a reputable house (I am a client) and its offering appears genuine.

Source: Spink-Maury Catalogue, 2018, pp. 192-193.
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Posted 01/27/2026   10:39 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cjpalermo1964 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Also, the "H" in the subject line of this thread is incorrect. It appears to be a misreading of Roman numeral IA or IIA in the catalogues. Spink Maury denotes this stamp as 111B, 5c vert bleu type IA, subtype d.
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Posted 01/27/2026   10:43 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Behr also identifies it as Yvert 111h and mentions the type IA.
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Posted 01/27/2026   11:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add cjpalermo1964 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Aha. Great. Thanks for that.
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Posted 01/27/2026   11:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littbarski to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thank you, interesting. Yes the stamp is called 111h, this is the listing from Yvert & Tellier, Timbres de France. But their listing, on the other hand, has then a wrong description in my opinion, but I am not French - "sur fond jaune" does not sound like "sur papier jaune" to me :).

How is it called in Maury, the yellow, also "fond" ? or is there more explained about the paper?

By the way I am glad to have asked here, because I see very very often this stamp issue and the 5c, and when the paper is yellow this is a lot easier to detect (many stamps seem to have yellowish background on the front).

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Posted 01/27/2026   12:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This would need an expert, but the picture for lot 614 from your own link appears like the paper has a yellow surfacing but is not yellow itself. There appears to be an unsurfaced bar below the green line.

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Posted 01/27/2026   12:50 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littbarski to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
yes, this is exactly why I thought it might be more a yellow background printing which also would match the listing description in Yvert as "sur fond".

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Posted 01/27/2026   1:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Flightle_Bee to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"Fond" is base or foundation, the term is most typically used for the browned particles remaining in the pan after frying meat- these form the basis for a sauce.
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Posted 01/27/2026   2:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The whole paper is yellowish. Behr genuine example:






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The e bay seller sells forgeries as genuine stamps.I don't know how he gets away with it.
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/38774910830...no&gbrtmp=no


Correction The New Caledonia Tax 1906 stamps is this:
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Edited by perf12 - 01/27/2026 6:11 pm
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Posted 01/27/2026   2:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littbarski to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
thank you very much!
Yes many "rare" stamps there :).
So I will make my notes that the paper is yellowish just as seen in the Behr example. But still would be better in French as "sur papier jaune", n'est-ce pas?
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Edited by littbarski - 01/27/2026 2:53 pm
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Posted 01/27/2026   2:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add NSK to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes, masses of fake British Official overprints.
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