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• J287 Front cover: The 55c Samothrace on postcard during the Spanish Civil War. Sent from Paris to Seville and passed military censorship.

  Franked with three Spanish stamps, and nationalist overprint “Viva España / Franco Queipo” applied in Seville. Full details see Edwin Voerman’s article ‘The Winged Victory of Samothrace’ on pages 63-66

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• J287 page 40 Fig 4

  The Paris R.P.B / 1 R. Vivienne recette auxiliaire urbaine opened on 1 December 1896 under the Recette Principale (Head Post Offce).

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• J287 page 50 fig 5: Paris 20 A/R.de l’Université 40 recette auxiliaire urbaine opened on 1 October 1894

  under Paris 20, 195 Bld Saint Germain. Registered sample cancelled 19 April 1898 to Bucey-lès-Pierrepoint franked 15c (5c Sample rate + 10c OPR Registration fee). Reduced price items as well as registered had to be dealt with over the counter.

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• J287 page 50 Fig 6: Paris 32/B recette auxiliaire urbaine opened on 9 March 1896 under Paris 32, Tribunal de Commerce.

  It operated for the benefit of lawyers in the Palais de Justice and became a bureau annexe in 1910. This is the only Paris recette auxiliaire that did not give an address on the date stamp.

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• J287 page 51 Fig 7:

  Limoges B / Hte Vienne recette auxiliaire urbaine opened in July 1896. .Registered letter for Limoges franked 40c and cancelled 15 November 1899.

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• J287 page 51 fig 8: Bordeaux, Les Salinières B / Gironde recette auxiliaire urbaine office opened in August 1900.

  This an unusual example of a postcard franked 10c and cancelled 13 May 1901 by the recette auxiliaire urbaine office to which the main Bordeaux office has also added its own date stamp.
  

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• J287 page 52 fig 9:

  The Bordeaux Cours d’Aquitaine B / Gironde recette auxiliaire urbaine office opened in August 1897.
  Registered letter sent within Bordeaux franked 40c and cancelled 4 May 1899

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• J287 page 52 fig 10: The Agen A / Lot et Garonne recette auxiliaire urbaine office opened in July 1895. Papiers d’affaires

  (Business papers) to Aiguillion. Printed matter could not be posted directly into a postbox but had to be handed in over the counter. It is correct to see this cancelled by the recette auxiliaire urbaine

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• J287 page 56 Fig 1:

  Examples of papillons or propaganda cards, two of which are cancelled with the special postmark from the Paris exhibition

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• J287 page 57 fig 2:

  The “classic” postcard cancelled on 2 June 1942 at the Paris exhibition

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• J287 page 57 fig 4:

  Late use of the Toulouse cancel of 20 May 1944 (a fortnight before the exhibitions were closed) on the Pétain 88th Birthday issue [YT606-608]

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• J287 page 59 fig 8:

  Part sheet of the Légion Tricolore stamps showing the arrangement of the blue, the white embossed gutter and the red stamps in the form of the Tricolore.

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• J287 page 59 fig 9: Rare Légion Tricolore maxicard with the two Légion Tricolore stamps postmarked 2 October 1943

  and a single LVF Borodino stamp [LVF 9] postmarked 15 December 1943, all with the Marseille exhibition cancel.

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• J287 page 60 fig 10:

  10 LVF cover stamped with the fourth LVF Borodino issue and showing the Feldpost cancel dated 1 August 1943 and the postal sector cachet - 03865A.

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• J287 page 60 fig 11:

  The first LVF issue of the ‘Bear’ miniature sheet with the franchise mark+100F.

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• J287 page 61 fig 13: LVF cover to Tourcoing from a soldier in postal sector 03865A bearing the third LVF issue,

  postmarked with the Feldpost dated cancel and with the sector cachet, opened and resealed
  and treated with chemical wash by the German censor with censor number on reverse.

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• J287 page 62 fig 16: Lettercard from a soldier of the 3rd LVF Battalion of the 638th Infantry Regiment in postal sector 05492D,

  Dated 4 February 1944 and stamped with a pair of Luftfeldpost stamps [SG M804]. Lettercard was opened by the censor and resealed with tape, treated with a chemical wash and carries various censor marks.
  

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• J287 page 64 fig 2:

  Stamped and cancelled cards as originally sold at the Musée du Louvre.

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• J287 page 65 fig 3:

  30c postcard with Musée du Louvre cancellation used correctly at internal maximum 5 word rate.

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• J287 page 66 fig 6:

  30c value on Museum card to Switzerland with added 5c and 65c values making up 1 franc foreign postcard rate, posted and cancelled 5 November 1937 at Garches, Seine-et-Oise.

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• J287 page 68:

  The Brazzaville Recette Principale (General Post Offce), in use since 1931, holds, in addition to many counters, the Philatelic Bureau, the sorting office and Express Mail Service facilities. © Marc Parren May 2017.

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• J287 page 80 fig 1:

  Declared value letter from Dogba, Bénin, to Paris.
  

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