stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 25, 2020 0:11:50 GMT
I thought maybe I had posted this, but I don't see it after scrolling through 5 tabs of my posts with Belgium in the title. Charity stamps for tuberculosis 10/12/1938. I'm guessing someone took to the post office to have hand canceled (?) the stamps are actual stamps attached to the sheet.  |
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 25, 2020 1:31:28 GMT
uh... maybe the date is 12/10?
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 25, 2020 6:13:38 GMT
European dates are written. dd/ mm/ yy. So 10th December is correct. Hi Stan stainlessb , I was just able to check my catalogue this afternoon , 10th Dec 1938 was the First day of Issue . That suggests the buyer did not have to go to the PO and request such neat orderly handstamps , much too carefully placed for a busy postal clerk to do even as a favour. I would say they were pre-prepared by the Post Authorities in this format for sale on the issue date. I would expect that the cancelled item will be listed in this format in one of the specialised Belgian catalogues . Perhaps some other member can confirm? I only have an elderly Stanley Gibbons Europe catalogue. |
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 25, 2020 15:48:58 GMT
I have COB 2019 and the only souvenir sheet I see listed with this series of stamps is
465A/495 Herdenkingsblad/Feuilet souvenir ( "Herdenkingblad /leaf and memory" is the translation Google gives), but no photo CV for cancelled 750 Euros (I find that hard to believe... i paid very little for it)
although it looks like they were available only until 10/1/39
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Jul 25, 2020 16:13:21 GMT
I'm going to suggest, until proven wrong that sounds correct, "Feuillet" in French can translate as "leaf", or in English a "page" or "sheet of paper" . France has produced "FEUILLETS PHILATELIC SOUVENIR" for many years which consist of a cancelled new issue on a printed descriptive sheet, basically an elaborate album page. So I'd pursue this further and try to confirm that catalogue value you may have struck lucky  |
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 25, 2020 16:30:54 GMT
Upon further dissection of COB, i now think it is a listing with no # and value is 40 Euro... which makes more sense. The CV I mentioned in earlier post is associated with a sheet of 20 (I think)
I need to scan and enlarge things... the print is just too small!
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jul 26, 2020 8:37:31 GMT
Herdenkingsblad/Feuilet souvenir - the 1st part is Flemish and means "remembrance page", the 2nd is French and means "souvenir sheet". My 1999 copy of COB list a souvenir sheet at the bottom at 1200 Belgian Francs, which is about £27.00 in new money I think:  |
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 26, 2020 14:21:21 GMT
I thought it might be Flemish, (Google Translate apparently not fluent in that!). I haven't a single individual stamp, so there is something to keep an eye out for!
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jul 26, 2020 15:57:29 GMT
Stan (@ stainlessb ) - I had a couple of mint hinged and used spares, so this will be winging its way across the Atlantic as soon as I can get to a post office (probably Monday): Scott #B225 MH, #B227 MH, #B228 MH & U, #B229 MH  |
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Post by stainlessb on Jul 27, 2020 1:40:11 GMT
cjoprey thank you so much for your generosity!!!
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jul 27, 2020 10:31:44 GMT
You are most welcome Stan ( stainlessb) - they've been posted now, and the post office clerk was kind enough to find some nice stamps to put on the envelope as well.  |
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