I'm hoping someone has a thought on these. I am pretty sure that the 30 & 50 are cut French Telephone stamps but what are the others? I am guessing maybe telephone cut squares but a search on the internet does not find such a thing. I don't have a Higgins & Gage catalog to check out. I seriously doubt I have anything rare, just wondering what they are. Thanks
Greg
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Those appear to have been cut/trimmed? Check out the section on France Telephone Stamps (below the section on France Telegraph Stamps): France Telephone Stamps
They are trimmed, but the highest denomination I see in my Yvert is 3f. I saw an ebay listing for Yv 3-11 and they called it a complete set. There is no 60,6f or 19f in the set
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An 1896 Brunel catalog notes only a 25c, 50c, 1fr, 3fr, in an 1885 & 1888 issue with a ministerial name change and an additional 1891 30c for "nightime calls"
Followed by a series of overprints.
There is no mention of any additional proofs.
Macravenmad I have a large Referance collection. macravenmad 02 May 2015 10:01:02am
re: French Telephone Stamps
Greg they are listed in H&G as either Pneumatic Post and also under the section on local pmeumatic. The 6F red is H&G #45. The others are local Pneumatic post. Without the rest of the card they would take longer to ID
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Macravenmad I have a large Referance collection. macravenmad 02 May 2015 10:16:09am
re: French Telephone Stamps
Greg after looking in H&G the first three could be cuts from telegraph stamps as well as local Pnuematic cards.
In Paris operated a pneumatic telegraph system, similar to what department stores used to have for obtaining receipts for customers.
Cards with messages were sent by this pneumatic telegraph system all over Paris.
I have a booklet describing it, and a collection of these cards and cut-out stamps like yours. Other cities that operated these, I believe were Brussels, Munich and Berlin.
For a sideline you could look up the Dreyfus Case and how one of these cards proved his innocence.
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re: French Telephone Stamps
The pneumatic network in Paris was quite remarkable, and lasted into the 1980s..1984 to be exact. I remember using it in the 1960s. A stamp was issued in 1966 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Parisian Pneumatic system.