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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Chancellerie Non-denominated Color Proofs


These lovely non-denominated color proofs of the Chancellerie series were sold in the recent 27th Christoph Gärtner Auction.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t the successful bidder!

27.Auktion
27.Auktion
27.Auktion
27.Auktion
27.Auktion

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Schifflange’s Anonymous Communal Revenues!


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25-Fr
[Schifflange]

9 August 1968


Although the Schifflange commune designed its own revenue stamps,
the commune’s name does not appear on these stamps,
unlike the stamps of other communes.  Why?
  

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Identity Card of
Gaston Jung

Post-WWII Fiscal Use of the G.D. Charlotte 3rd Series definitives



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Gouvernement grand-ducal
Office des Licences


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002 
10-Fr Charlotte (3rd Ser.)
License fee for a license to import
100 tons of sugar syrup from Cuba
(Contract value = US $31,500)
20 November 1946
As reconstruction began after World War II in Luxembourg, printing new revenue stamps was a low priority.  Instead, the G.D. Charlotte 3rd Series definitives, issued in 1944 and 1946, were used.  Thus, we often find these stamps with government-agency fiscal cancels, such as you see here, particularly the higher denominations.  But uses on documents are scarce.
 
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1 1/4-Fr
Administration Communale
Steinfort