France: Postal History (Covers, Postcards, etc.)

Stan

A few members (including hrdoktorx) will appreciate - others..........?? Jon (Norway) is not a regular anymore and he has a big FRANCE collection - I forgot his avatar name (blaamand ) 

René

A common stamp. Yvert #75A (no shadow bridging upper 'swirl" on "S: in POSTE, and probably 75Aa Clear green on pale green. The postmark Is Paris   Sept 4, 1889 and it looks like H. MILTON  (Could be A. but it doesn't match the "A" in PARIS) this may have been the Hotel Milton (which. one by the same name, still exists in Paris today) anyone with any insight or information, please share!

There are no date stamps in Pothiuons France Obliterations that have the inner circle with dashed line

I was going to try and remove the small scarp of paper stuck top the front, but there is already hole and the paper is brittle!

An early Carte Postale with 10c YT54 and with a Pl de la Bourse Paris postmark,dated 16 June 1876.

I've only collected France seriously for two years now, but I do have a few good pieces. Here is one, and you can see my taste is more mid-century.

Here is a first day cover with the semi-postal landmarks set from 1947, Scott B213-17, rounded out with Scott 512 and 570. It is addressed to Montreal from "Vaires S/Marne" which I admit I know nothing about. There is a blue Montreal customs stamp on the back from 10 January. My Maury catalog confirms the set was issued on 6 January 1947.






Each stamp from the semi-postal set is a corner margin example, which is cool. Some might call this a "philatelic" cover, and sure it is, but it also crossed the Atlantic, so it is also a good "business strike" to use a coin collecting term.

captphil
Terri said it all so I am using her comment - What a nice cover, for us FRANCE lovers - 1947 is still "classic" in my book and I have all  these beauties in Album (mostly Mint), but not on cover 
René

Three French covers I have.

Hi Rene 
strange route that grew really,
At one time (circa 1980) I was dirt poor, so I was buying auction lots for pennies (Suitcases, cartons etc of commons)
Then I had trouble segregating stamps I already had, with duplicates   (a common collecting problem)

So, I decided to scan an image of every stamp that passed my desk.
That had its problems  , I would run out of computer memory.

As computers developed, so did my scans.
Now, I am not sure I am a "Stamp collector", or an "Image Collector"
I bought things nobody wanted, at auctions, I paid something like $12  for  40 years of "The Australian Stamp Monthly"

I bought, and still do,  buy Stanley Gibbons Stamp Monthly for 20c each (now$1)  from the Red Cross Stamp shop (covers ripped off)

I rarely, now, open my albums, only to add and mount new stamps.   Everything is scanned

The pinnacle came 3 years ago, when I discovered XYPlorer, a file manager, that could make sense, and  easy retrieval of my 700,000 or so scans

That said, I barely scratch the surface, Philately is so vast,  its like the big bang, its expanding at a rate, no mortal can entertain.

Cheers