rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 8, 2014 2:09:38 GMT
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Post by stoltzpup on Oct 8, 2014 3:08:01 GMT
Martinque wanted to buy if members have duplicates. Mint or used? Blank spaces on your post only? Any Martinique? |
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Post by classicalstamps on Oct 8, 2014 5:27:56 GMT
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Oct 8, 2014 9:50:58 GMT
Not fussy, Mint or used, if "mint" prefer hinged,
Would look at bulk lot, and pass on my duplicates
I have nothing before 1908 and scattering of low values 1937 onwards
Expensive earlies happy to look at space fillers, ripped and torn and thins.
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70-72-73-74-75-76?-80-81-82-83-84-88-89-91-92-93-95-96-97.
1924-27 any opts not 1f50
135-144-146-147-149-152-153-155-156-157-159-162-163-164-166-168
My fort de France 76 I show in my scan
not sure if it is dull red and brown or, brown orange and brown?
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rod222
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Post by rod222 on Nov 10, 2014 21:12:18 GMT
Martinique Thanks to Stoltzpup for filling some gaps in my collection. Postage Dues : Tropical Fruit. Paris Exposition 1937 New York World's fair 1939    |
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blaamand
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Post by blaamand on Aug 5, 2018 22:29:47 GMT
Martinique used stamps of the General French Colonies before seperate stamps were issued. The early stamps are identified by diamond lozenge cancellations with the letters 'MQE'. I won this block on eBay the other day:  Can't wait to receive it - it will lighten up my Martinique forerunner collection  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 26, 2018 21:22:34 GMT
The airmail issues from the "London series" (YT #PA4-5). Only two issues for Martinique.  |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 26, 2018 21:37:48 GMT
Though technically not part of the "London series", Martinique did get an RF + Lorraine Cross stamp series in 1945, featuring Victor Schoelcher (responsible for abolishing slavery in France and its overseas territories in 1848, the second time it was abolished, as it had already been during the French Revolution, but reestablished by Napoleon). YT #199-217.  |
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Post by billfromlachine on Feb 11, 2019 2:10:54 GMT
Folks,
Managed to win this lot today.
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loupy
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Back and active, thank you!
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What I collect: US to 2000 with a focus on 720 & 721, WW 1840 - 1930, DDR 5 year workers, Machins, Canada Centennials, Brazil Allegories, Mexico Archiecture & Archaeology 1950 -75, used stamps preffered when possible.
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Post by loupy on Feb 11, 2019 2:19:12 GMT
Nice catch!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2019 15:52:37 GMT
The 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (‘International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life’) was held in Paris. It took place between 25 May and 25 November, centered upon the Trocadéro, just across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
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anglobob
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What I collect: France and French Colonies,French cinderellas British Commonwealth QE2
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Post by anglobob on Sept 22, 2019 21:19:22 GMT
A set of six stamps was issued in 1935 to commemorate the Tercentenary of the French Antilles.I have scanned two sets which I acquired,with a noticeable difference in the shades.There is no mention of this in either the Gibbons or Dallay catalogues.Would like to know a little more about this.   |
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anglobob
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Post by anglobob on May 6, 2022 2:03:51 GMT
The final series of stamps ,Yvert 226-242,issued in 1947 and showing different aspects of local life in Martinique.  |
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salentin
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collecting Germany,where I live and about 20 more countries,half of them in Asia east of the Indus
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Post by salentin on May 6, 2022 7:04:01 GMT
To the post from September: Could it be,that the upper set is just "tropical" ?
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on May 7, 2022 7:07:06 GMT
To the post from September: Could it be,that the upper set is just "tropical" ?
I think you meant to tag anglobob -- and yes, that does appear to be the condition, and the term escapes me right now, but applies to collections in the south of France that are more exposed to the sun. Things just fade out. |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 7, 2022 22:30:56 GMT
chrischross: Is the term you are looking for “changeling”?
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on May 8, 2022 6:55:47 GMT
chrischross : Is the term you are looking for “changeling”? No, something broader. It's a term that happened to collections in the south of France that suffer "le soleil" and just the overall salt air and conditions down there. Of course, this was in a time prior to climate control. |
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 8, 2022 7:15:32 GMT
Ok, then let’s tag Xavier ( hrdoktorx), who lives in Provence to see if he can tell us. I lived in Provence for a couple of years myself, and I can speak French, but I don’t recall having heard about this special term before. It’s an interesting quest! In general, the only term that comes to mind is “ensoleillé” which means sunny or exposed to the sun, but I never heard that used in a philatelic context. |
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on May 8, 2022 7:41:22 GMT
Ok, then let’s tag Xavier ( hrdoktorx ), who lives in Provence to see if he can tell us. I lived in Provence for a couple of years myself, and I can speak French, but I don’t recall having heard about this special term before. It’s an interesting quest! In general, the only term that comes to mind is “ensoleillé” which means sunny or exposed to the sun, but I never heard that used in a philatelic context. Come to think of it, it was probably a term only encountered when I dealt with a mail order dealer decades ago in Marseille. “Ensoleillé” would definitely capture the essence. |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 8, 2022 10:04:11 GMT
A practice for stamps meant for French overseas territories in the tropics, that continues to this day, is to produce the stamps with a so-called "tropical gum" that is less sensitive to the high-temperature and humidity conditions under those climes, and thus prevents the new stamps from sticking to other sheets before they can even be purchased. This is mostly done for definitives. In particular, the Marianne series, for the last few decades, are issued with "normal" and "tropical" gum. Obviously, since the "tropical" gum sets, produced in smaller numbers and sent out to the overseas territories before sale, are more difficult to find, and nearly indistinguishable from the normal metropolitan stamps once used, they carry a premium on the philatelic market, and are best obtained in mint condition. This is not personally one of my areas of expertise or interest, though. For the particular set at issue here, the 1935 Tricentenaire des Antilles (still on my wish-list!), there is no mention of it existing in two shades or gum types in either the 1938 or the 2011 Yvert catalogs.
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Post by gstamps on May 8, 2022 15:53:39 GMT
Some stamps from the "Navigation and Commerce" series Scott 34, 40, 41 and 43.  The stamps in this series I think show the so-called "tropical gum" The gum is thick, yellowish brown and with small cracks. The pair is from the same series (with overprint) from the Moheli colony  |
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salentin
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Post by salentin on May 10, 2022 15:00:40 GMT
No,I did not mean "tropic" gum or stamps faded from sunlight. Many older stamps from tropical countries show some browning of the gum and paper.
Some issues are hard to find without being tropicalized.Especially those,what were produced
or overprinted or stocked for a long time in the colonies/countries and not in Europe. The deeper the browing goes,the more colours become changed.
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on May 10, 2022 16:55:42 GMT
Thanks, salentin -- exactly what I was trying to convey. |
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Post by greaden on May 10, 2022 23:59:01 GMT
Some stamps from the "Navigation and Commerce" series Scott 34, 40, 41 and 43. The 15c value here is unfortunately a forgery. Take a close look at the perfs, the fruit in the horn, and the woman's fingers on the central staff. |
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Post by gstamps on May 11, 2022 8:05:21 GMT
greaden , Thanks, you're right 15c gray is forging. I have forgerie and genuine stamps from this series and after I take pictures of them, it still happens to me to put them on the wrong card. salentin, I agree with the phenomenon described by you. It is not clear if the gum has small cracks. The stamps in the "Navigation and Commerce" series that I have, show without exception these small cracks, the rubber has a thickness of 0.2-0.3 mm and the color is brownish yelow (I think the previous translation was wrong-yellow is the main color) My 4 stamps are more or less faded and the gum does not show the differences shown in your example. (even brighter on the pair of stamps with the faded paper)  
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Post by gstamps on May 11, 2022 18:29:06 GMT
Postage due stamp Scott J24  I think it's a double overprint (vertical)  I need to know if this variety is registered in the French specialized catalogs. Thank you. |
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 12, 2022 20:14:34 GMT
Sorry, no mention of double overprints for those stamps in the Yvert&Tellier 2011 French Colonies catalog.
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chrischross
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Post by chrischross on May 13, 2022 2:35:04 GMT
Sorry, no mention of double overprints for those stamps in the Yvert&Tellier 2011 French Colonies catalog. Likewise, no mention in Dally 2008-09. |
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Post by gstamps on May 13, 2022 5:00:45 GMT
hrdoktorx, chrischross, Thank you very much. I'll check the overprint more closely (I guess it's machintypo) False overprints (applied with rubber plate) applied by hand, show this phenomenon sometimes.
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