Bill of Lading for timber shipped from Wiltz to Belgium during the World War II occupation

 

1938 1-Fr Lettre de Voiture	Occupation Surcharge

15c on 45c Affiches Surcharge Used on a 1928 Mimeographed Auction Notice Advertising a Feed Auction to be held in Trotten

Dated 20 June 1928 at Wiltz

Reverse showing the poster addressed to Trotten [post: Clerf], with the postage stamp (sadly) removed.

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!

Schifflange’s Anonymous Communal Revenues!

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?  

Identity Card of
Gaston Jung

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

Gouvernement grand-ducal Office des Licences

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.     1 1/4-Fr Administration Communale Steinfort

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