A Stamp Collection From France

A look into collecting stamps from France, and identifying any special features.

[@Rangersly]

Thank you for showing us your collection! Beautiful covers too! The word ''gare'' actually means ''train station''. ''Guerre'' is the word meaning ''war''. France is one of the very few countries I collect. I think they are blessed with a history of beautiful stamps, especially the ones with engraved art. I stop collecting with the year 2000 as France's annual output just kept getting bigger and bigger, to a point that it is ridiculous and too expensive to collect.

[@StampSleuth]

Thanks for the information. My French is so poor, though i should have suspected. Ah, Stamp Sleuth foiled again!

[@Rangersly]

@@StampSleuth Don't worry about it. Both words sounds very much alike. And it was only a single word in an otherwise flawless presentation of an almost half hour episode.

[@jimhresco1728]

The French archipelago St Pierre et Miquelon has many interesting overprints on stamps from France. The Marianne you showed being one of many Marianne issues bearing the overprint.

[@StampSleuth]

A lovely group of stamps in that Marianne set!

[@stamp-ede4084]

Thank you for sharing your collection. Looking forward to more viewing.

[@StampSleuth]

More to come!

[@voneschenbachmusic]

I love French stamps - a favorite of my world collecting. Great collection - so many beautiful issues!

[@StampSleuth]

Thank you for watching and for the compliment!

[@jimdavis8391]

The quality of the engraving and lithography used to produce French stamps was arguably the finest in the world. I started collecting French stamps by accident and kept going as I also loved the designs.

[@basilsylvesterpinto10]

beautiful, insightful episode ... I got back into delving into my France collection a few days earlier with the approach of Bastille Day on 14 July and I have a fair bit to do since, and that includes its overseas territories, present and past. For eg, Afars and Issas is now an independent country, Djibouti.

[@StampSleuth]

Yes the history of countries can be quite convoluted and interesting!

[@willardtaylor6249]

You have a lot of beautiful French stamps. France is an interesting country to collect. Many of its stamps are very attractive and they reflect much of the culture and history of France. The stamp that you pulled out at 3:20 is interesting. Instead of being issued for France proper, it was issued for any French colony that did not have its own stamps. The catalog lists it under French Colonies. Also interesting is when a country had business in a foreign country, and it didn’t trust the postal system of the host country, that country would sometimes set up their own post offices in the host country and issue special stamps for the purpose. France was one of the countries which did that and I saw a few of those stamps on the third page of your stock book. On the second row from the top, several stamps inscribed at the bottom “Levant” were used in the Turkish empire. The stamps inscribed Port Said were used for French post offices in Port Said, Egypt. These are back of the book issues listed at the end of France in the catalogs. In the middle row, there are two postage due stamps from Tunisia and three French Colonials( the name of the colony that they were issued for is in under the numeral of value).. The tall carmine stamp on the next to the bottom row, was issued by Switzerland in 1900.

[@StampSleuth]

You certainly know your stamps, better than I do! I appreciate all this knowledge and insight.

[@willardtaylor6249]

One thing about stamps; they are fascinating ; and as you continue to collect, you never stop learning about them. You have your stamps beautifully arranged in the way that you have displayed them. One thing I might add is that the stamps you have shown at 3:32 and 6:31 , which have new values printed over the old values, probably represent a change in French postal rates. I don’t know this for sure, but I see, in looking at the catalog, that the face values of the basic stamps are not repeated in subsequent issues. So it appears that the French postal system placed new values on these stamps, rather than to destroy them, so that the old stamps could be used at new postage rates. Such stamps are correctly identified as surcharged stamps, as the face values have been changed. The term “overprint “ is correct for anything else which may be printed over a stamp that does not change the face value, such as the sower stamp which you showed with the letters F. M. printed on top.

[@aijaheloisepince5306]

Lovely talk!!!! ❤

[@StampSleuth]

Thank you for watching my video and the feedback!

[@jimdavis8391]

That blue 'Ceres' you have is in fact a much later stamp from during WW2. The overprinting was done when standard postage rates increased, yet authorities did not wish to issue new stamp values. Often the cause was inflation!

[@StampSleuth]

That makes sense, thank you for watching my video!

[@MaitlandPlace]

Some words you were trying to decipher. a. "payez" means "pay" as in "pay this amount, etc." One postmark had the city of "Angouleme" which is in the southwest of France.

[@StampSleuth]

Tanks for your input and for watching my videos so closely, sometimes I am at a loss for words when I do these!

[@СергейБояревич-щ8щ]

Very nice

[@StampSleuth]

Thanks

[@MaitlandPlace]

Stamps bearing the words "Quittance|" refer to the discharge of a debt owed.

[@StampSleuth]

Well that is very interesting, many hanks for the insightful comment and for watching!

[@barryfong2844]

U can utilize a stamp catalogue 2 identify Ur stamps.

[@StampSleuth]

Yes I do at times but find it a bit overwhelming when dealing with a huge number of stamps to sort!

[@aijaheloisepince5306]

With respect 'Gare' is station, not guerre meaning war.

[@StampSleuth]

Ah the intricacies of translation!

[@albertpincis]

@@StampSleuth In the past having worked with history of art journals in several languages, don't I know it!!! :) However a nice insight into your French collection and will look out for more videos.