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& Miquelon
Philatelic Journal Editor
: James (Jim) Taylor
2335 Paliswood Road SW,
Calgary, AB
james-taylor@wave.home.com
President : David
Allen
2159 W 47th Avenue,
Vancouver BC
Canada
V6M 2M6
Fax : 1-604-263-3141
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New-York, N.Y. 10014-0464
USA |
Site fondé
en 1993. | |
The Free French Overprints of 1941/42.
By David Allen | | The plates that overprinted Free French St. Pierre and
Miquelon stamps all had 25 subjects and thus could only handle 25 stamps at a
time. Only a few minor varieties exist, although, of course, each separate
overprint being typeset, differs slightly from any of the 24 others on the plate.
By careful comparison it is possible to establish the position of any single stamp
it once occupied in the sheets of 25 stamps. |
| Here is a complete setting of 25 for the type used on the greater part
of the varieties and it is invaluable not only to determine the position of any
one stamp but far more important, to track down at once any forgery. This
setting was used on all stamps Scott # 206A to 216, 222 to 248A, B9, B10 and Q5.
There is only one variety that is always constant to every value, the 25th
stamp has a large square period after the third letter of the F.N.F.L. This variety
is thus 25 times scarcer than the normal. |  |
Philatelic
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