Rouletted Communal Revenues from Remerschen

 

On 3 September 2006, the Remerschen commune’s name was changed to Schengen.  Does anyone have communal revenues with the new name? My posting of communal revenues is now approaching 80 former and present communes.  Can you help add to the post?  View the post here.  Write to me at arsdorf@gmail.com .

Partially Imperforate 10c Lettre de Voiture – An Uncommon Example of a Common Stamp

10c Lettre de Voiture  [Bill of Lading] Pair imperforate at top Unlisted

Unlisted Surcharge on Luxembourg-Ville’s First Horseman Issue

The background of the first Horseman issue consists of diagonal lines; that of the second consists of horizontal lines. In Benelux Revenues (2d ed.), Barefoot lists only three denominations for the first issue: 5F purple, 10F green, and 20F blue.  There is also a 50F brown (shown below), and the first issue included a 3.20F red (also shown below), which here has been surcharged to 6.40F.  Barefoot lists only a 6.40F denomination for the second issue, which I’ve not seen.  Denominations in my collection are 5F purple, 10F green, 20F blue, 50F brown, 50F tan, 70F blue, and 100F orange. Who has seen the second issue 6.40F?  Does it really exist?Are there other unlisted denominations. This is an issue that invites further study.  What are the perforations, shades, rates and uses?  Share your findings.  I’ll publish them here! This post was revised on 15 April 2014.

First issue – 3.20 F

First issue – 50 F

Luxembourg-Ville Taxe Communale Revenues, now Denominated in Euros, Continue to Feature Trémont’s Bronze Lion Sculpture

 

Luxembourg-Ville’s revenue stamps have long featured one of the two bronze sculptures of a lion that flank the entrance to the City Hall.  These large statues were sculpted by the Luxembourg sculptor August  Trémont and installed in 1931. Trémont was well known for his large animal sculptures, which he said he created because sculptures of animals were the most difficult to create.  Here the city’s revenue stamps continue to feature Trémont’s bronze lion, with the stamps now denominated in euros, as seen on this 2002 receipt for an identity card.

Previous issue denominated in francs.

Beaufort – Sheets of 12 of the 5 Fr red & 5 Fr green Beaufort Castle communal revenues

Surcharged Kayl pictorial used on an identity card in 1947 – newly discovered!

Kayl -- Village View 5 frs. on 2 fr (?)

Identity card issued 30 December 1947 for the then 21-year-old Fernand Dostert of Kayl.   The stamp is affixed to the back of the card.  When was the pictorial issued and when was it surcharged?  Were there other denominations and other surcharges?  We know so little about these attractive communale revenues.

Pétange – Pre-WWII Communal Revenues Reappear in 1945!

Here, on a civil register abstract dated 30 November 1945, we see Pétange’s pre-WWII French-language pictorial communal revenues back in use, but on a German-language form from the war years when French text had to be obliterated from revenue stamps (see my post here showing Echternach communals with German text obliterated).

Useldange’s Pictorial Communal Revenues!

 

Newly discovered, the four rouletted denominations—2.50 Fr red, 3.20 Fr brown, 5.00 Fr blue, and 10 Fr green—are printed, each in a row of four, together in a sheet. These attractive stamps depict Useldange castle, which stands on a small hill in the center of the village of Useldange overlooking the Attert river.  The castle is believed to date from the 12th century when the lordship of Useldange was created.