France 1849/1975 - FRANCE 1849-1975 Yvert & Tellier: Cérès to Arphila 75

There are collections that read like a history book: this one tells the story of France through its stamps, from the Ceres of 1849 to the Arphila 75 exhibition block, including the Sage, the Semeuses, the 1930s series, the Liberation issues, and the great wave of “artistic” stamps of the sixties. About 1700 stamps, most of them unmounted. Yvert & Tellier albums with a green Greek frame, screw binding, pre-printed leaves with a box per stamp, Yvert number and shade label. The stamps are affixed by hinge. The empty boxes indicate exactly what is missing, which makes it easier to continue the collection. A Y&T binder with transparent strips completes the set (airmail and 1941-1944 issues). The classics (1849-1900), not perforated Undentulated Ceres 1849-50: 20 c black, 25 c blue in two shades (date stamp, grid). Undentulated Napoléon III 1853-60: 12 stamps with PC diamonds, including a dark carmine 80 c; perforated 1862 and lauré 1863-71. Ceres 1871-75 (large and small digits), cancellations GC. Sage type 1876-1900 (types I and II): more than 60 stamps in several shades. Three quadrille sheets of accumulation: about 90 stamps (Napoleon laureate 20 c in GC, undentulated Empire, Ceres 25 c). 1900-1944 Plain, Mouchon, Merson (up to 5 f), Semeuse figured line, cameo and solid background, Pasteur. Paris 1924 Olympic Games (set of 4 mint *), Arts décoratifs 1925, Strasbourg block 1927. Thirties: Normandy, Mermoz, Jaurès, Vimy, 1937 Exposition, 1937-1940 series nearly complete. Secours national, city and provincial coats of arms, celebrities, 1941-1944 period series, rooster and Algerian Marianne. 1944-1957, mostly mint* Dulac and Gandon Marianne, Arc de Triomphe, Mazelin Ceres, centenary of the postage stamp 1949 (band with vignette), Red Cross, Stamp Days, tourist series, Europa 1956, Resistance heroes. 1963-1975: about 440 stamps, almost complete series Europa: the twelve pairs from 1963 to 1974 (24 stamps): Eiffel Tower pair with Chagall and Chartres stained glass 1963, the 1964 flower, the key of 1968, the temples of 1969, up to Maillol and Rodin in 1974. Philatec 1964: strip of four stamps with central vignette, and the 1 F with illustrated border “Opening.” The art series: Lady with the Unicorn, Sens stained glass, Toulouse-Lautrec, Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry, Apocalypse, Dufy’s Red Violin, La Tour’s Newborn, Lurçat, Daumier, Ingres, Gauguin, Renoir, Seurat, Degas, Boucher, Fragonard, Monet, Derain, Le Brun. History: call to arms of 18 June 1940 (1964), Liberation series 1964 and 1969, Napoleon, Bayard, Henry IV, Richelieu, Louis XIV, Bastille, Valmy, and the “Homage to General de Gaulle” band (1971) with central vignette. Space conquest and major achievements: satellite A1 and Diamond (paired with vignette, 1965), D1, Diamond B, Aérotrain, Concorde at Roissy, Turbotrain TGV 001, Phoenix. Sport: Tokyo, Grenoble (set of 5 plus prelude), Mexico, Sapporo, Munich. Red Cross and Stamp Days annual series, Cheffer and Béquet Marianne. Pieces apart: the Arphila 75 block (4 values: 2, 3, 4 and 6 F), the sheetlet “For the Postal Museum” 1966 (Nouveau-Né de La Tour print phases, 5 F, Imprimerie des timbres-poste) and a maximum card Stamp Day 1964 (mail by horse, illustration by Robert Cami, Châlons-sur-Marne 14.3.64). + The Y&T binder (airmail, 1941-1944) Airmail: 500 F UPU Congress 1947, 100 F CITT Paris 1949, Icarus, 100 F Gandon, Dewoitine 338 with edge, three Costes et Le Brix 10 F (1981), Airbus A300-B4 and biplane 30 F (1998, corner of sheet with checkmarks), Ceres centennial band 1849-1949 with vignette. About a hundred stamps of the French State 1941-1944 (figures, medallions, Charter of Labour 4 f + 6 f in two copies), with several overprinted “R.F.” and surcharges + 10 and + 50 [to be expertized before valuation]. Condition: classic used stamps of ordinary to nice quality, with a few age-related flaws detailed in the cataloging. Mint stamps mounted by hinge, original gum, regular perforations in the photos. A few stamps under a black protective sleeve. All the pages are photographed. For the collector: an ideal starting set to continue a collection of France (the run after 1975 is easily found), or for a dealer who would want to extract values and shades. A collector is above all a reader of details: here, every box tells a nuance.

Estimación:€150

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