Luxembourg 10-centime Postage Due Pays Fishing Permit Fee in 1908!

FISHING PERMIT 

Inscribed Port à Payer

Diekirch, 31 Mar 1908 12-1s cds

Diekirch II, 31 Mar 1908 4-6s cds

Commissaire de District

Diekirch

 

30F Chancellerie (1938 Issue) - Justice Dep't - Permission to Possess Prohibited Weapons

 

30F Chancellerie 

(1938 Issue) 

 

Justice Department

29 Mar 1939

Authorization to Possess Prohibited Weapons 

(Autorisation Ermächtigung de détenir des armes prohibées.

 

2.50F Dimension (small size) - 1936 Death Certificate Issued by the District Court

 2.50F Coat of Arms

(small size - 1930s issue)

DIMENSION

 

 

Death certificate [Sterbe-Urkunde] issued by the Luxembourg District Court
[Bezirksgericht - Luxemburg] on 10 November 1936, decedent Nicolas Hoffmann.

 

5-Franc 1928 Effets de Commerce used on a Promissory Note

 

5-franc

 

Schuldschein

[Promissory Note]

5-franc

4,200Fr = Range 4,000 - 5,000Fr

Niederkerschen, 5 Jun 1930

Effets 1898 u-shaped ornament - 10c tete-beche proof pair

 

 10c Tete-Beche Proof Pair

1898 Effets 

with u-shaped ornament

 

Barefoot notes that "[p]roof pairs are known of the 10c and 20c tete-beche; it is not known if the issued stamps contained any tete-beches."

1889 Effets de Commerce - Two types of cone ornaments

 

1889 Effets de Commerce

Two types of the Cone issue ornaments 

 

Left side - Type A

Cones are separated from the center cross

Right side - Type B

Cones touch or nearly touch the center cross

 

Since the 1889 Cone issue (Barefoot 50 to 55) is fairly common, it's not too difficult to acquire examples of both types.  Barefoot notes the two types, but does not give them separate numbers.  My Type B is often found printed in a darker blue.

 

1889 Effets de Commerce Variety

 

1889 Cone Ornaments

5c value Rouletted

The 1889 Cone ornaments issue (Barefoot 50-55) is fairly common and is found imperforate. Here, however, is the 5c denomination neatly rouletted. Perhaps done privately? 

Has anyone else seen examples of this issue rouletted?

 

1 Franc - 1931 Small Documentaries on Document

 

Protest 

(Debt Collection)

1931 

1 Franc Rose

Leon Hengen

Huissier

 

Esch-sur-Alzette

31 Dec 1931

 

 

On the reverse

Barefoot # 23

 

WW2 Luxembourg Occupation -- a rare Zahlkarte control label: Fiscal or Phantom?

Zahlkarte Label

14 Jan 1941

Control No. 007656
40a Lux

Luxemburg P Sch A cds

1700 RM deposited

The fee for transfer of amounts from 1500 RM to 1750 RM is  
paid with the 5F Luxembourg Three Towers stamp surcharged to 80 Rpf.

During the 1900s, most European postal services offered direct cash deposit (or 'giro') accounts to their patrons.  Money could be paid into these accounts at any post office, eliminating the need for the payee to receive, present, and wait for a bank check to clear.  Today the availability of electronic money transfers and debit cards has greatly reduced the importance of these postal accounts.

In Germany, the Reichpost recorded giro account deposits on a three-part form called a Zahlkarte (in English:  a "payment card").  The postal service retained one part; another was sent to the account holder; and the depositor kept the third as a receipt.  

Up until the 1970s or 1980s, a control label was affixed to the card.  While it did not itself create the credit to the recipient's postal account, the Reichpost required use of the label as part of the administrative procedures for recording and authenticating the money transfer.  When affixed to a Zahlkarte, the control label provided the unique number that identified the transaction.  It thus served a fiscal accounting purpose and was a necessary part of the money transfer.  Accordingly, I believe it should enjoy the status of a revenue stamp, notwithstanding that it is the 80 Rpf. surcharged stamp that pays the transfer fee.

Collectors in Germany tell me that Zahlkarte control stamps are scarce and that only two are known for occupied Luxembourg, as the Reichpost routinely retained and destroyed the cards.  If you know more about these cards, I'd be happy to hear from you.  Write to Arsdorf@gmail.com .

Stadt Luxemburg 0,20 RM Gebühren used in a Livret de Famille in 1943

20 Rpf Stadt Luxemburg Gebühren 

 

Clausen, 6 Jun 1943