Post by rod222 on Aug 19, 2013 19:59:30 GMT
A very lovely gift from Jeff, TSF.
It constantly amazes me, the generosity of stamp collectors, sharing the joy.
Preamble Courtesy of Riga Stamps:
France 1944 Chateau de Malmaison Philatelic Souvenirs B
Two blocks of four vignettes depicting a child, who l'Arc-en-Ciel's Catalogue descriptif des Timbres Commemoratifs de France et des Colonies depuis leur creation avec cotation identified as being that of the King of Rome (Napoleon II), son of Napoleon Bonaparte and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. They were prepared in connection with a philatelic exposition held at the Chateau.
In contrast to this description, however, Gustave Bertrand, in his Memorial Philatelique, identified the same portrait bust when used on another set of stamps as being that of the the Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV), the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and his Empress consort Eugenie de Montijo,and the last dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the throne of France.
The block at the right is the deep blue color we've seen most frequently. However, the block at the left is a distinctly different ultramarine color. So far as we know, the existence of two blue color varieties is not reported in the literature.
(Riga stamps have two blocks of 4 of the blue for sale $25 )
So, Napoleon 2? or Napoleon 4?
It constantly amazes me, the generosity of stamp collectors, sharing the joy.
Preamble Courtesy of Riga Stamps:
France 1944 Chateau de Malmaison Philatelic Souvenirs B
Two blocks of four vignettes depicting a child, who l'Arc-en-Ciel's Catalogue descriptif des Timbres Commemoratifs de France et des Colonies depuis leur creation avec cotation identified as being that of the King of Rome (Napoleon II), son of Napoleon Bonaparte and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. They were prepared in connection with a philatelic exposition held at the Chateau.
In contrast to this description, however, Gustave Bertrand, in his Memorial Philatelique, identified the same portrait bust when used on another set of stamps as being that of the the Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV), the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and his Empress consort Eugenie de Montijo,and the last dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the throne of France.
The block at the right is the deep blue color we've seen most frequently. However, the block at the left is a distinctly different ultramarine color. So far as we know, the existence of two blue color varieties is not reported in the literature.
(Riga stamps have two blocks of 4 of the blue for sale $25 )
So, Napoleon 2? or Napoleon 4?
