I've been collecting France Third republic - 1871-1940 - for a few years and I've just come across this. Not in SG, but I found it in Yvert. Any views on precancels?
It was described as used on ebay, but it looks like it was used to clean the floor with. I looked on ebay and found quite a lot of France precancels - mostly newish and mint. The prices being asked vary enormously from 0.99p to £40, £85 or even £250 for some hopefuls.
How do you tell if they've been used if there isn't an obvious postmark?
And as they're not in SG, I take it they are perceived by Gibbons as some kind of philatelic anomaly. But not by Yvert.
Do you have views about them - are they pukka?
Yeah, too bad about the condition.
Precancel? Or overprint?
-Paul
"How do you tell if they've been used if there isn't an obvious postmark?"
Just back in town.
This is a precanceled stamp on the "semeuse" or "sower", from a series of 4 sets of precanceled issued in 1920, 1921 and 1922.
They display respectively (all on 3 lines) POSTES PARIS 1920 (Y&T 24-25), POSTES PARIS 1921(Y&T 26 to 29), POSTES PARIS 1922 (Y&T 30-32) and POSTES FRANCE 1922 (Y&T 36 to 38).
This is Y&T #36. They all exist cancelled as well mint, and the cancelled stamps are worth significantly less. In my older Y&T catalogue of 2007 it has a cat value of 60E. As with all the early precanceled stamps of France, counterfeits are plentiful!
rrr...
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re: Question on French Pre-Cancel
I've been collecting France Third republic - 1871-1940 - for a few years and I've just come across this. Not in SG, but I found it in Yvert. Any views on precancels?
re: Question on French Pre-Cancel
It was described as used on ebay, but it looks like it was used to clean the floor with. I looked on ebay and found quite a lot of France precancels - mostly newish and mint. The prices being asked vary enormously from 0.99p to £40, £85 or even £250 for some hopefuls.
How do you tell if they've been used if there isn't an obvious postmark?
And as they're not in SG, I take it they are perceived by Gibbons as some kind of philatelic anomaly. But not by Yvert.
Do you have views about them - are they pukka?
re: Question on French Pre-Cancel
Yeah, too bad about the condition.
Precancel? Or overprint?
-Paul
re: Question on French Pre-Cancel
"How do you tell if they've been used if there isn't an obvious postmark?"
re: Question on French Pre-Cancel
Just back in town.
This is a precanceled stamp on the "semeuse" or "sower", from a series of 4 sets of precanceled issued in 1920, 1921 and 1922.
They display respectively (all on 3 lines) POSTES PARIS 1920 (Y&T 24-25), POSTES PARIS 1921(Y&T 26 to 29), POSTES PARIS 1922 (Y&T 30-32) and POSTES FRANCE 1922 (Y&T 36 to 38).
This is Y&T #36. They all exist cancelled as well mint, and the cancelled stamps are worth significantly less. In my older Y&T catalogue of 2007 it has a cat value of 60E. As with all the early precanceled stamps of France, counterfeits are plentiful!
rrr...