Indo-China: Air Post Stamps

Stoltzpup (Bud)

I know nothing about the imperfs, but that won't stop me. 


All 14 of your imperfs are from the 1933 perf set.  The perforated 1938 issue (C5, C10,C13), and the 1941 issue (C6A, C10A, C13A) are missing as imperfs.

So you have all of the "1933 issue" as imperfs. And it's possible you do indeed have all the imperfs,- if, in fact, no imperfs were issued for the 1938 and 1941 stamps.

As you note, Scott only lists them with Perf 13 1/2, and does not mention imperfs.


Perhaps Yvert or Maury catalogue for Indochina would have the specific explanation.

Thanks (jkjblue and antoniusra)for your insights. The stamps are MNH; I put them in a page with clear pockets for the scan. They're printed on a stock that seems a little heavier (I don't have a micrometer handy) and creamier in color than the perf stamps. I suppose one might guess, based on Jim's observation that the missing values were printed in 1938, that mine may have printed contemporaneously with the 1933 issue, authorized or not. I'll see if I can find any obvious differences in the colors or plates.

Thanks. You have catalogue resources I don't have and the information is very much appreciated.

Yvert lists a 17-stamp perf set and a 14-stamp imperf set, and the CV for the imperf set is almost 40 times the value of the perf set. (The imperfs are a one-line mention below the regular listing, so the stamps are not individually priced. Just the full set.)

If this is what they are, you've got a nice find.

so why the paucity of stamps? - simply a lack of interest, or are these issues difficult to source .
I  had a little luck at the boot sale yesterday morning  -  for  the grand total of £4 bought the four catalogues in the first picture - they  date to the late '70s, which mostly covers my break off date so they should be useful  -  and lo and behold they've proven their worth already.  
Because .................     For £10 I also bought some scruffy old envelopes each containing a single  country selection of stamps and have just pulled out, at random, three Indo-China air issues from the mid '40s, and these catalogues have helped me nail their id.       

After Japanese occupation of this geographic area during WW II, control was returned to the French, briefly, before change intervened and the area became as we now know as Cambodia, Laos and  Vietnam.  But, it's a part of the world with a complex history and not for  the faint hearted.
The stamps I've shown are three Air issues from 1946, and are possibly the final French Air Mail issues. 

the 80 c. orange is the 'Victory' stamp  -  SG 331 - from May '46, and is a stand alone issue.


the other two are from a set of  six stamps - SG 332 to 337, issued June '46 with the title 'From Chad to the Rhine ............  here are the 2 P. purple SG 335 (graphics show a scene of the Normandie beaches), and the 5 P. brown-red SG 337 (showing tanks in Strasbourg).

I hope other issues in the 'envelopes' are as equally interesting.       P.S.   What does  the letter P, for value, indicate please??