Lot no. 40624
1895-1971, Franchise Militaire - A superb collection in an album of more than 80 pages developing a very detailed and rarely collected theme, the set endeavours to be as exhaustive as possible by presenting for each type the mint stamp (**/*), cancellations, vintages, blocks, some proofs, booklets, whole sheets, many significant varieties of overprinting (reversed, offset, double, etc.), as well as a very large number of documents with beautiful and interesting items.), but also a very large number of documents with some very interesting items, such as the half-stamp Paix Y&T No. 8 on a letter from 1939 with a sticker "franked in this way for lack of F.M. stamps", several uses abroad on letters including Poste Française in China, Martinique, Algeria, Madagascar, Cochinchina, Tonkin, the Expeditionary Corps of Crete, Annam, Tunisia, Sudan, etc.., military stamps, postal sectors, regiments, makeshift overprints on letters, franking, combinations, as well as formulas for military packets (including the one in red), FM vignettes from the Infanterie booklet, and much more. This unique set, assembled with care and patience, will delight both philatelists and postal history buffs, and should be consulted without delay!
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Philately - Stamps France and French Colonies - PART #1 : FRANCE
1279 Chavannes-de-Bogis - Switzerland