tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56095887768450215322024-03-13T04:25:08.006+01:00SebPhilately'sAbout stamps, covers, news from the philatelic world.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.comBlogger651125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-16035271320483104802017-09-16T11:17:00.000+02:002017-09-16T11:17:06.989+02:00Late August and early September 2017 on SébPhilatélie and in France<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/obliteration-pointilliste-lisible-en.html">Tuesday 22 August</a>: How to inkjet-print cancellations in Malaysia.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Interesting postcard received from Malaysia, sorted 29 June 2017 at the national mail center (<i>Pusat Mel Nasional</i>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stamp on fauna of the country and a cancel that be read (thank you Hasbullah and<span> </span><i><a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/">Postcrossing</a></i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cancel is shaped in the traditional round datestamp and can be read despite behing made of small black inkjet points. A model for British Royal Mail, the United States Postal Service and a few others.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/avancee-et-obstacle-sur-la.html">Friday 25 August</a>: Is electronic money the future of India?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the harsh, surprising and - for many Indians - desperating <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2016/11/massive-demonetisation-surprise-en-inde.html">demonetisation of the two highest banknote denomination last November</a> by Prime Minister Modi. It was followed by weeks of daily problems for consumers, entrepreneurs, rural workers,... facing the lack of currency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But among solutions found by them and encouraged by the federal government were electronic means of payment, through phones, direct from one bank account to another. To help this transition the governement proposed to use the <a href="https://uidai.gov.in/">Aadhaar</a>, equivalent of the national social security number in many countries such as France, unique to a person from his birth onwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However the Supreme Court advices against this last point for fear that the right for privacy couldn't be respected: administrations being able to investigate people thank to the Aadhaar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To be continued...</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/09/payer-plus-pour-avoir-le-vrai-timbre-de.html">Saturday 2 September</a>: To pay more to get the actual stamps of France?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After better looking and complete reissue of stamps at Paris-Philex exhibition in May 2016, I think the French philatelic service will again do it on the week-end of the 23rsd of September.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the educative animated series has a lot of appeal, La Poste chose cinema pre-filming prep... (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Hello_Maestro_2017">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the 30th anniversary of the TV educative series <i>Il était une fois... la vie</i> (Once upon a time... was life) by Albert Barillé and, in 2018, the 40th of <i>Il était une fois... l'homme</i>, one stamp will be issued... not very connected to the series themselves but for three of their characters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Entitled <i>Hello Maestro!</i> the stamp is in fact a commercial for the website established a few years ago from these series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you wish to get stamps with the characters in action, explaining how the body works (<i>...la vie</i>) or the history of mankind (<i>... l'homme</i>)?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You'd have to buy the 9.80 euro collector (prepersonalised) booklet, meaning 2.50 euro above the postage value of the stamps.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/09/initiation-reperer-les-faux-dans.html">Sunday 10 September</a>: Initiation on recognising fraudulent stamp in <i>Gibbons Stamp Monthly</i>.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The September 2017 issue of <i>Gibbons Stamp Monthly</i> proposed three articles on false stamps: from pioneer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Loines_Pemberton">Edward Loines Pemberton</a>'s writings told by Michael Peach to a tsunami of current <i>Machin </i> definitives by Edward Klempka, through the Empire during King George V's reign with <a href="https://www.murraypayne.com/vPages.asp?vpagesid=About%20Us">Dickon Pollard</a> from <a href="https://www.murraypayne.com/">Murray Payne</a> dealership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="http://mondephilatelique.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/09/12/un-timbre-surcharge-pour-la-designation-officielle-de-lattribution-des-jo-a-paris-le-13-septembre/">Wednesday 13 September</a>: speaking of French reissue policy...</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally and officially the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to Paris. The French post being a sponsor, <a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Candidature_JO_PARIS_2024">a commemorative stamp was already issued last May 2017</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To mark the final honor around <a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=JO_PARIS_Lima_F_2024_2017">a fifth of that stamp printing was overprinted</a> in blue with an Eiffel Tower, the cathedral of Lima (where the IOC Congress too place), the name of Lima and the date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hurry and dip deep: these stamps will be sold by complete sheet, only in actual places and for two weeks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Again a speculation debate to come?</span><br />
<br />Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-66652065896126277732017-09-02T10:42:00.000+02:002017-09-02T10:42:41.169+02:00Weeks #2017.32 and 33 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/faut-il-alterer-le-timbre-pour-lui.html">Monday 7 August</a>: Should a stamp be altered to gain value?</b><br />
A philatelic philosophic question that encompass traditional to today's commercial philately: should a stamp be altered to gain value?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Uncancelled and unfolded or folded on cover? How would you collect such a stamp? (<a href="https://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/site/coleccion-1363198467552-galeria_sellos_filatelia/detalle_emision-sidioma=en_GB">Correos website</a>).</td></tr>
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Thoughts from many examples that make philately more famous than miles of new or cancelled stamp albums: from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Cent-Magenta-Inside-Quest-Valuable-ebook/dp/B01JKHTMZM">the alleged burning of the second known One Cent Guyana</a> to <a href="https://www.correos.es/ss/Satellite/site/coleccion-1363198467552-galeria_sellos_filatelia/detalle_emision-sidioma=en_GB">the Spanish origami stamp of July 2017</a>, and remembering many flowering-able stamps.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/aucune-treve-aoutienne-en-philatelie.html">Saturday 12 August</a>: No holidays for the French philatelic service.</b><br />
Once upon a recent time Phil@poste, the French philatelic service, never issued stamps in August and was light with one or two touristic stamps in July.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The « sweet bitter intensity of chocolate », one of the 12 stamps by Cécile Gambini for <i>The Taste </i>booklet, issued Saturday 5 August 2017 (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Carnet_gout_2017">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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This year a complete illustrated adhesive booklet was issued the first weekend of August and the first day of issue of Le Havre's 500th anniversary stamp happened past Thursday the 31st.<br />
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Hopefully other news happened in French Philately outside new stamps: <a href="http://www.ffap.net/Expositions/Competition.php?Annee=2017&id_expo=212">French young philatelists gathered medals</a> at <a href="http://bandung2017.org/">the international exhibition in Bandung</a>, Indonesia.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/occupations-francaise-et-communiste-au.html">Tuesday 15 August</a>: French and communists pastimes for British collectors.</b><br />
Did you know <a href="http://www.scottishphilately.co.uk/">The Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies</a> edits stamp games to discover foreign language vocabulary?<br />
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The board of the stamp game in French <a href="http://www.scottishphilately.co.uk/youth.php">createed by StampIT</a><span> </span>of The Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies.</div>
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This Summer its <a href="http://www.scottishphilately.co.uk/youth.php">Youth Development - Stamp ID section</a> added the French edition, joining Japanese and Spanish. The <i>Language of Stamps</i> board games can be freely downloaded and print-it-yourself on the ASPS website or solid games can be ordered.<br />
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In London from 17 October to March 2018 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/14/british-museum-exhibition-communist-currencies-russian-revolution">the British Museum will exhibit the communist part of its collection of banknotes</a>. An interesting exercice to see how communist states have illustratede their ideals to the public.<br />
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This 1975 banknote of Somalia pictured all the roles a Somali woman should do: exhausting totalitarian multitasking or opening them the world? (British Museum<span> </span><i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/14/british-museum-exhibition-communist-currencies-russian-revolution">via The Guardian</a></i>).</div>
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The collections of the British Museum are a wonder thank to generations of curators and donators. It even includes postcards sent or bought by them like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/26/postcards-on-the-edge-curators-homage-to-a-dying-tradition?CMP=share_btn_tw">this <i>Guardian</i> article reminded last year</a>. As for the banknotes the curator explained the differences for historians between the country and population as they are pictured on cards and as they eventually were.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/le-programme-des-jeudis-de-la-rpsl-pour.html">Thursday 17 August</a>: The 2017-2018 RPSL program.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_programme_current_year.asp">The program of Thurday exhibitions and conferences</a> was published on The Royal Philatelic Society London website.<br />
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The touch of the new President Patrick Maselis is quite visible, an interest in Belgium, Africa and Monaco, along established customs to invite other Societies to present their members' collections, from German postal historians to the philatelic academy of Russia.<br />
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First event, Thursday 14 September: The West Indies from the Queen's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Philatelic_Collection">Royal Philatelic Collection</a>, presented by its Keeper <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Sefi">Michael Sefi</a>.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-8123733666632567442017-08-22T10:11:00.000+02:002017-08-22T10:11:22.074+02:00Weeks #2017.31 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/deuxieme-moitie-de-juillet-2017-en.html">Monday 31 July</a>: Some news from philatelic societies.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.rahf.es/">The Royal Hispanic Philatelic Academy</a> is publishing <a href="http://www.rahf.es/la-real-academia-hispanica-de-filatelia-e-historia-postal-anuncia-la-publicacion-de-la-revista-conmemorativa-del-40-aniversario/">a special issue of his journal</a> to mark its 40th anniversary.<br />
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On Thursday 27 July <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">The Royal Philatelic Society London</a> celebrated its library volunteers and employees with <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_displays.asp">a special exhibition from their collections</a>.<br />
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On Friday 28 July <a href="https://www.postalmuseum.org/">The Postal Museum</a> finally opened in London, but know that the Mail Rail, the exhibition and travel through the former Post Office underground train will only be opened to the general public in September. Seems reservation for Mail Rail would be prudent.<br />
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In the middle of summer the New Zealand post office announced <a href="http://commonwealthstampsopinion.blogspot.fr/2017/07/1052-new-zealand-ends-health-stamps.html">the Children's Health stamp series is discontinued</a> due to sales being insufficient to donate enough to <a href="http://standforchildren.org.nz/">Stand</a> ; 2016 would be the last one of <a href="http://stampsnz.com/health.html">a now complete collection</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Swiss <i>Postcrossing</i> stamps (<a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2017/07/28/new-postcrossing-stamps-from-switzerland"><i>Postcrossing</i> blog, 28 July 2017</a>).</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2017/07/28/new-postcrossing-stamps-from-switzerland">On 7 September the Swiss Post will issue three stamps</a> - one per rate - about <i><a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/">Postcrossing</a></i>, the postcard blind exchange postcard website. <a href="http://maxspring.ch/">Max Spring</a> designed the humorous labels.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/lalienation-postale-par-charles-bukowski.html">Friday 4 August</a>: Being postal with Charles Bukowski.</b><br />
Summer reading: <i>Post Office</i> by United States author Charles Bukowski who wrote quasi autobiography in some of his novels.<br />
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As it happened Bukowski, a free spirited man - spirit as the fumes of some beverages... -, was a postman and after a period of successful horse racing betting, a postal clerk sorting envelopes. Despite a reasonable efficiencies he wrote how some of the rules and regulations were alienating the staff.<br />
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A reflexion on inhumane modern fordism? Or an ode to laziness and easy pleasures?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/08/175-trucs-pour-reussir-lexposition-dune.html">Sunday 6 August</a>: "175 proven stamp exhibiting tips" by Steven Zwillinger.</b><br />
Another summer reading, but incomplete because of the nature of the book, this will guide a potential philatelic exhibitor into the preparation and the competition, hopefully, on "the path to gold".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The cover of <i>The Path to Gold</i> (<a href="http://www.aape.org/">American Association of Philatelic Exhibition website</a>).</td></tr>
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The very interesting and thought-inducing book by <a href="https://stamps.org/userfiles/file/education/Summer_Seminar/2017Courses/Zwillinger-Bio.pdf">Steven Zwillinger</a> was published 2016 by the <a href="http://www.aape.org/">American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors</a> and compiled his chronics he wrote for <i><a href="http://www.americanstampdealer.com/">The Stamp Dealer & Collector</a></i> from 2009 to 2016, and the publications of the AAPE.<br />
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From a detailed example of a synopsis (the text provided by the exhibitor to the jury) to etymologicly iconoclast ideas... or simply reminders that one should enjoy oneself's and the public's when exhibiting.<br />
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After I wrote my article on <i>SébPhilatélie</i>, I found that Steven Zwillinger <a href="http://bandung2017.org/by-class/">was awarded a large silver medal</a> for this book at the international exhibition in Bandung, Indonesia this August and <a href="http://blog.stamplibrary.org/2017/08/17/zwillinger/">was elected President of the American Philatelic Research Board of Trustess</a>, which pilot the American Philatelic Society's Library in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-33806557852429601062017-08-02T11:45:00.001+02:002017-08-02T11:45:44.818+02:00Weeks #2017.29 and 30 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/disparition-de-brian-moorhouse.html">Tuesday 18 July</a>: Latin America specialist Brian Moorhouse passed away.</b><br />
On Saturday 15 July Brian Moorhouse died. He was a British dealer, expert and philatelist specialised in the Latin American continent and the Caribbean from the 19th century to the 1940s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Christopher Colombus, the appropriate logotype of <a href="http://www.brianmoorhouse.com/">Brian Moorhouse's web shop</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/du-gout-de-la-nature-et-des-sculptures.html">Saturday 22 July</a>: On new stamps of France: sculptures and gastron... Mediterranean nature.</b><div>
A personal view on two issues - the EuroMed Postal of July and the Auguste Rodin commemorative of September - compared to former issues of France on the same topics or how Jersey Stamps treated nature through the bicentenary of the kaleidoscope.</div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/aux-marges-economiques-de-la-france.html">Monday 24 July</a>: Two articles on the economic margins of France.</b></div>
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Two articles in French were recently published on the web.</div>
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On Sunday 23 July, on <a href="http://envelopmer.blogspot.fr/"><i>La Marcophilie navale </i>blog</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/107092913681888143596">Jean-Michel Bergougniou</a> told <a href="http://envelopmer.blogspot.fr/2017/07/les-consommateurs-francais-apprecieront.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LaMarcophilieNavaleEnvelopmer+(La+Marcophilie+Navale+envelopmer">the two first fishing campaigns (1981-1982)</a> around the Kerguelen Islands, in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, through mail and stamps.</div>
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The context was the tensions between French fishing companies, Newfoundland and Norway. The austral summer 1980-1981 campaign studied and experimented the zone. The next one brought back fish. For example the reader can follow <i>Zélande 2</i> from France to the Austral Ocean via the Suez Canal.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A 25 rouble specimen <a href="http://www.cgb.fr/25-roubles-russie-vladivostock-1919-ps-1257s-neuf,4090582,a.html">sold in 2016 on CGB.fr website</a>.</td></tr>
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On <a href="https://numismag.com/" style="font-style: italic;">Numismag</a>, a coin and banknote collection news website, research articles are proposed too. Since Wednesday 19 July you can learn <a href="https://numismag.com/fr/2017/07/19/rouble-indochinois-1918-1920/">about the unissued Russian rouble banknotes of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine</a> written after the author consulted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banque_de_l%27Indochine">the bank</a>'s archives, now in possession of Crédit agricole SA.<br />
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After the First World War Central and Eastern European countries were a geopolitical mess. In Siberia - the Asian parts of Russia - too: the British and French were helping the fight against the Bolcheviks... And it wasn't beautiful: French general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Janin">Maurice Janin</a> was sent to command the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion">Czeckoslavak Legion</a> that was in Russia at the time... and it seems it ended participating in the demise of a White Russian leader in Omsk.<br />
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Money was a problem in Civil War Russia: Imperial roubles still printed by the Bolcheviks were competing in the hands of the people with the Kerenski overturned government new roubles... In Omsk the White Russian authority was considering a sovereign issue of notes.<br />
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Like the British in Arkhangelsk, the French government wished to reassure the population with whom their military would have to trade. The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was ordered to open an agency in Vladivostock and issue banknotes in rouble, exchangeable in French francs (1 rouble for 60 centimes).<br />
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In 1919 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bank_Note_Company">American Banknote Company</a> was ordered to design and print the notes. But the military and political contingencies in Omsk delayed their issue. In the end they were destroyed in May 1920 in New York... but for specimen series that have been circulating on the market or that are stored in the Banque de l'Indo-Chine archives.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/du-courrier-international-avant-lupu.html">Thursday 27 July</a>: Pre-UPU mail travel with James Van der Linden.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.vaccari.it/editoria/libreria/index.php?_c=pmr.mon.&_o=2639E&tsid=3c1c53b3d01fe214df33f8f47acf95c2ef56b04b09b59bf813307453d7dfff9a">Thank to Vaccari bookshop</a> I succeeded to find Belgian postal historian <a href="http://academiebelgium.be/fr/fiche.asp?id=10">James Van der Linden</a>'s book - or collection - entitled <i>Four Important Exchange Offices</i>, published by La Marque postale in 2016.<br />
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The four main centers of the 19th century postal networks progressively established by European posts were, from West to East, Panama, Aix-la-Chapelle (<i>Aachen</i>), Trieste and Suez.<br />
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Collectors will enjoy the 80 letters, postal historians the explanation on rates and marks, the curious one - me - the text putting all this in context.<br />
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Thanks to the author to help me on my slow way on 19th century postal history.</div>
Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-27314058110866211132017-07-26T10:32:00.000+02:002017-07-26T10:32:24.353+02:00Weeks #2017.27 and 28 on SébPhilatélie<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/a-quoi-ressemble-un-timbre-fiscal-mali.html">Saturday 8 July</a>: Difficulties with fiscal stamps for Malians in Algeria.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://maliactu.net/mali-penurie-de-timbre-a-lambassade-du-mali-en-algerie-depuis-plus-de-deux-2-mois/">On 21 April 2017 MaliActu.net news website</a> published a plea from Malian citizens living and working in neighbouring Algeria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Embassy in Algiers hadn't had stamps for months and its personnel refused to explain the causes, while Algiers and Bamako are weekly connected by flights.</span><div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/semaine-n201727-en-philatelie.html">Tuesday 11 July</a>: A philatelic month.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With my recent dive in <i>Tweeter</i> to discover the social network tool, here are some news I gathered there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/userfiles/press_releases/RPSL-Press-Release_20170623.pdf">At the general assembly on Thursday 22 June</a>, members of the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">Royal Philatelic Society London</a> elected Belgian postal historian Patrick Maselis as its new President. ont élu le Belge Patrick Maselis président de l'association londonienne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Already President of the Club of Monte Carlo which organised <a href="http://www.monacophil.eu/">Monacophil</a> and of the Royal Academy of Philately of Belgium, whose website proposed <a href="http://academiebelgium.be/fr/fiche.asp?id=29">a complete biography</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Collectors of <a href="https://twitter.com/ArtStamped/status/885830912159690752">Belgian personalised stamps</a> who are members of the RPSL will be thrilled :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In Oaxaca, Mexico:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.mufi.org.mx/">The MUFI</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/MUFI_oax">its <i>Twitter </i>account</a>) celebrated its birthday at the same time as the philatelic exhibition on the seas and their fauna. Medias and institutions of Oaxaca broadcasted both events.</span><br />
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<a href="http://imparcialoaxaca.mx/arte-y-cultura/20702/una-biblioteca-especializada-en-filatelia/" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Saturday 1st July, Lisbeth Mejla of newspaper <i>El Impartial</i> reported her visit</a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> of the museum's library, rich with studies by Mexican philatelists and old editions of famous catalogues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Presentation of the MUFI by </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.fahho.org/">Fundation Alfredo Harp Helú</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bKhoRzyeY">posted Friday 7 July 2017 on <i>youTube</i></a>. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And since Friday 7, <a href="http://www.fahho.org/">Fundation Alfredo Harp Helú</a> is proposing a video about the museum, its permanent collections, its activities for the children, its library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In Algeria:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.elwatan.com/hebdo/magazine/une-emission-mitigee-pour-rendre-justice-a-l-histoire-06-07-2017-348581_265.php">Thursday 6 July, in his weekly philatelic column in <i>El Watan</i></a>, Arslan Selmane wrote down his questions about the last commemorative minisheet by the Algerian Post. It is issued the same week end alongside its five separate stamps about Algerian battles against the French invasion, occupation and colonisation of the country from 1830 to 1962.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The questionable minisheet, issued Saturday 8 July 2017 (<a href="http://philateliedz.forumactif.com/t2695-emission-n-11-2017"><i>via</i> the forum <i>PhilatélieDz</i></a>).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To summarize: apart from difficult-to-watch paintings on stamps, how will thematical philatelist exhibit the minisheet whereas there are events of two different periods, a variety of locations and war actors and strategies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Selmane is continuing <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/le-programme-algerien-de-2017-vers-un.html">his enlighted criticism of Algeria's 2017 stamp program</a>, in which minisheets are numerous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">French medias haven't seemed to notice the issue... Surely a good thing for public appeasement. Not for a serious look on French history, and for philately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The final part of the article in French are proposition of magazines for the Summer, including for parents (and grand-parents) how to manage video games with their children.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Friday 14 July: a 12th Indonesia birthday for <i>Postcrossing</i>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bastille Day is <i><a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/">Postcrossing</a> </i>Day too!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The 3 Indonesian stamps: travel through postcards with open computer windows to the world (1) of monuments (2) and cultures (3).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The written postcard exchange website is honored by the Indonesian post with a triptyc because a <i>Postcrossing</i> event will be organised during <a href="http://bandung2017.org/">the international exhibition in Bandung</a> (3-7 August).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Of course <i><a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2015/12/the-postcrossing-stamp-catalogue.html">The Sebphilately Postcrossing catalogue</a></i> was updated accordingly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/un-timbre-sur-liverpool-dans-une-serie.html">Saturday 15 July</a>: a new stamp for Liverpool.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">In his latest issue on contemporary architecture Royal Mail added one stamp about the city of Liverpool, one of the specialities of Séb.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The new façade of the Everyman Theater in Liverpool... If the picture went more to the left, another architecture marvel would appear, but it was already put on a stamp in 1969 (Royal Mail).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_Theatre">Everyman Theater</a>, opened 1964, was completely rebuilt between 2011 and 2014. Its new front presents pictures of Liverpuldians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The theater is located on the northern part of Hope Street, a touristic promenade of Liverpool by itself. You will find the two cathedrals at both ends (the Anglican to the South, the Catholic next to the Everyman), sculptures and many important place of concerts and plays, including musical pubs.</span></div>
Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-58085569280204834062017-07-10T11:48:00.001+02:002017-07-10T11:48:50.059+02:00Week #2007.26 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/george-vi-et-la-thematique-guerre-des.html">Monday 26 June 2017</a>: Jersey adds King George VI to the "Radiowave War" topic.</b><br />
If you read French historians Alain Croix and Didier Guyvarc'h's research on stamps and the two world wars (<a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/06/two-french-academics-study-world-wars.html">here is a summary published on this blog</a>), you know that some topics are philatelically more popular than others.<br />
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Concerning the role of media in these wars, they were surprised that the radio broadcasts were very rarely pictured, but for Charles de Gaulle and his Appeal of 18 June 1940.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The £2 minisheet that completes the 6 Jersey stamp series on King George VI, mostly <a href="https://www.jerseystamps.com/en/Shop/Detail?c=1707&r=%2F">an issue about the King of War</a>.</span></td></tr>
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That's why I consider noteworthy <a href="https://www.jerseystamps.com/en/Shop/Detail?c=1707&r=%2F">a recent issue of Jersey</a>: one stamp and the minisheet remind the role of radio broadcast during the reign of King George VI.<br />
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The movie <i>The King's Speech</i> popularised the story of the duke who became king against his will and speech handicap, but succeeded to dominate it. One proof was the speech the King gave on September 3rd when Britain entered in the war, whose official picture is reproduced on the minisheet.<br />
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<i>La Guerre des ondes</i> - the radiowave war - is the French expression for the propaganda conflict through the radio broadcast. Mainly the BBC-supported shows performed by many governments in exile facing the Nazi German allies' radio. For the French listeners it was between <i>La France aux Français</i> in London versus Radio Paris. <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2014/12/15/pierre-dac-aux-commandes-de-la-guerre-des-ondes_4540762_1655027.html">A 2014 telefilm by Laurent Jaoui for France 3</a> told the violent words exchanged by Free French humorist Pierre Dac and Vichy Minister of Information Philippe Henriot.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/lillustrater-pieter-huveneers-disparait.html">Wednesday 28 June 2017</a>: commercial designers Pieter Huveneers passed away at 92.</b><br />
Born in the Netherlands in 1925, living in Australia since the sixties until he died 14 June 2017, Pieter Huveneers was important on postal matters, having worked for the British Post Office promotional campaigns in the fifties.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Internal campaign of 1952, encouraging British postmen to urgently deliver telegrams (<a href="https://postalheritage.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/an-interview-with-pieter-huveneers/" style="font-size: 12.8px;">British Postal Museum & Archive blog</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, archive </span>POST 110/1611, IRP 056<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">).</span></span></div>
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Although his posters are renowned, Huveneers thought campaigns as a whole process, encouraging the companies to send one of their employees at his studio, so that the spirit of the campaign be continued after the end of his task.<br />
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In Australia he designed the logotype of Australia Post in 1975, still in use today.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/07/entre-chine-et-russie-le-luxembourg-en.html">Saturday 1 July</a>: Luxembourg forgot its identity between wish to please superpowers.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.deutsche-briefmarken-zeitung.de/2017/06/29/ohne-luxemburg-verkauf-wird-eingestellt/">On Thurday 29 June German monthly <i>Deutsche Briefmarken-Zeitung</i></a> announced that Post Luxembourg was taking out of sale the Europa two stamps issued on 9 May.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dommeldange_Castle">castle of Dommeldange</a>, seat of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Luxembourg (<a href="https://www.postphilately.lu/timbres/-/asset_publisher/1TTXCLVbEoFz/content/timbres-2eme-emission-en-2017-01-serie-europa-chateaux?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postphilately.lu%2Ftimbres%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-2%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D5172104%26_101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz_parentCategoryId%3Dfacaid%26_101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz_maxItemCount%3Dfamaitco">Post Luxembourg</a>).</td></tr>
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The cause: the name of the issuing country was forgotten between designer <a href="http://bencarter.eu/">Ben Carter</a>, an Englishman living in the Grand-Duchy, and the Belgian Post printing plant in Malines, without the Luxembourgian philatelic service noticing...<br />
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New stamp design in the age of low mail writing...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Russia_in_Luxembourg">castle of Beggen</a>, seat of the Embassy of the Federation of Russia in Luxembourg, rented in 1956, bought in 1973 (<a href="https://www.postphilately.lu/timbres/-/asset_publisher/1TTXCLVbEoFz/content/timbres-2eme-emission-en-2017-01-serie-europa-chateaux?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postphilately.lu%2Ftimbres%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-2%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D5172104%26_101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz_parentCategoryId%3Dfacaid%26_101_INSTANCE_1TTXCLVbEoFz_maxItemCount%3Dfamaitco">Post Luxembourg</a>).</td></tr>
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In the article in French I made fun of the wish of the fiscal paradise made in the European Union to become a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China or a subject of the Federation of Russia.<br />
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It could make sense in the world policy context of our days and that the only signs of sovereignty on the stamps were the Chinese communist and the Russian flags.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-61406438528451254412017-07-05T14:18:00.000+02:002017-07-05T14:18:08.376+02:00Weeks #2017.25 on SébPhilatélieWhat was on this blog in French late June?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/protestations-satiriques-et-errinophile.html">Monday 19 June</a>: Satirical responses to Donald Trump Presidency.</b><br />
How to protest against Donald Trump (and the most conservative members of the Republican Party) and convince opponents to react and GOP supporters to think again?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The label shown as example by its creator (<i><a href="http://www.postalprotest.com/">postalprotest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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Three solutions happened late June 2017: TV channel Comedy Central's satirical <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA">The Daily Show</a></i> entertained New Yorkers with a temporary museum between Friday 16 to Sunday 18, just opposite the famous Trump Tower:<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tdstrumplibrary">The Donald J. Trump</a></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/tdstrumplibrary">Presidential Twitter Library</a></div>
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that still can be visited <a href="http://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/trump-twitter-library/tour">on this 3D website</a>.<br />
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Even former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, decided to go satirical and has been filming <i>youTube</i> videos to educate his presidential colleague beyond the wall how to behave as a chief of State: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlrauHGAbY&t=53s">24 May</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZKrn7Bbl8&t=6s">7 June</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FrQRHW3XHI">28 June</a>. Enjoy.<br />
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Finally a simple citizen created <a href="http://www.postalprotest.com/">a website, postalprotest.com</a>, to sell cinderella stamps with the likeness of Trump and classic U.S. stamp ornament, valued "0 cents" that <a href="http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=77663">English-speaking members of <i>StampBoards</i> forum read "no sense"</a>. The designer tells that his inspiration came from browsing his late father's collection.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/du-nouveau-pour-les-marques-postales.html">Wednesday 21 June</a>: New postage marks and service for periodics in F</b><b>rance.</b><br />
Not very popular among collectors, but still postal marks and services: the postage paid marks directly printed on envelopes or plastic bags wrapping printed newspapers, magazines and other periodicals sent to subscribers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">New (left) and former (right) marks for the press sent through the postal system (screen capture of <a href="https://www.presse-poste.laposte.fr/logos-presse-publissimo">La Poste's dedicated website</a>).</td></tr>
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With <a href="https://www.canardpc.com/">a video game bimonthly - and ironical - magazine</a> issue of mid-June, I discover the new marks by the French post. The illustration above present more understantable service mark: P1 for the uurgent press of the day, and so on P2, P4 and P7 depending on the need for the publication to be delivered with haste and depending on the cost.<br />
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The four new logotype replaced the three colour former: red, black and green.<br />
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The "Publissimo" (Pmo) marks are updated to in the same way and are for periodical publications that are not members of <a href="http://www.cppap.fr/">the Press Commission</a> that negociates with State the help of press diffusion.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/une-nouvelle-serie-dusage-courant-en.html">Thursday 22 June</a>: New definitive series in Ukraine.</b><br />
Betweenn Saturday 10 and Tuesday 20 June Ukrposhta issued the first eight stamps of Ukraine's ninth definitive series: Arms of municipalities, towns and villages.<br />
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I thank <a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/">the blog Мой почтовый мир / <i>My postal world</i></a> for his webmaster's work to publish <a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/search/label/Ukraine%202017">the new issues of Ukraine</a> (among others).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Ukrposhta published an envelope for the new series' first day of use with a map locating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Ukraine">the cities/villages and their oblasts</a> (<i>via <a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-cover.html">My postal world</a></i><a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-cover.html">, 10 June 2017</a>).</td></tr>
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Designed by Natalia Andreichenko following the recommendations of Andrey Grechilo, President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Heraldry_Society">Ukrainian Heraldry Society</a>, the 8 stamps illustrate the arms of Chop (Zakarpattya), Klesov (Rivne), Nizhyn (Chernigov), Shatsk (Volyn), and villages of Marinin (Rivne) et Parutino (Mykolaiv).<br />
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Six here because the last two are remarkable because of the relations between Ukraine and Russia. But first, here is a list of the letter codes for the postal rates:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">From a mail by Ukrposhta (<i><a href="http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=77701">via StampBoards</a></i>).</td></tr>
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The two stamps are from territories currently disputed between Ukraine on one side, Russia or Russian-[choose your opinion]ed independentist groups on the other.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>Yalta</i>, first stamp issued in this series, "V" for the interior basic letter<i> </i>(<i>via <a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-yalta.html">My postal world</a></i><a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-yalta.html">, 10 June 2017</a>).</td></tr>
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Since the events of early 2014 the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromaidan">Euromaidan protest</a>"-inspired governments of Ukraine are facing the <i>de facto</i> integration of Crimea and Sebastopol into the Federation of Russia. So the issue of the Yalta stamp... The stamp will appear on many envelopes inside the country, the message is clear: Crimea is Ukrainian.<br />
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A traditional role for a stamp: to reinforce sovereignty... as Russia has been doing with stamps about Crimean places since 2014.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Arms of <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ienakiieve">Yenakiieve</a> (<i>via <a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-yenakiieve.html">My postal world</a></i><a href="http://mypostalworld.blogspot.fr/2017/06/ukraine-yenakiieve.html">, 21 June 2017</a>).</td></tr>
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The other troublesome stamp was issued Tuesday 20 June bearing the arms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenakiieve">Yenakiieve</a>, in the oblast of Donetsk and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donbass">industrial region of Donbass</a>, où deux groupes pro-russes revendiquent l'indépendance et sont en guerre civile contre l'État ukrainien.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbass">Since the first fights in April 2014</a> this city is under the control of the separatists of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic">People's Republic of Donetsk</a> while part of its suburbs were retaken by the Ukrainian army.<br />
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One question: how is the postal system working in Donbass?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/meme-les-heros-de-jeu-video-recoivent.html">Saturday 24 June</a>: Even video games heroes receive postcards.</b><br />
<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Cause_3">Just Cause 3</a></i> isn't an intellectual reflective video games - sure those kinds of games exist: read <i>Canard PC</i> - but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_Studios">the Swedish studio Avalanche</a> allows its hero the capacity to read.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Introductive video of the game - the only seconds without gun and cannon shots? - during which the hero reads again his cousin's postcard that decided him to go back to its archipelago country in the Mediterranean Sea (<i style="font-size: 12.8px;">via</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LvRkofXj4" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Fl0GaminG video on <i>youTube</i>, 5 December 2015</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">).</span></td></tr>
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In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Cause_(video_game_series)"><i>Just Cause</i> series</a> the player must violently disrupt a dictatorial régime by killing soldiers, destroying strategic and military assets. When enough "chaos points" have been earned, he/she can perform special missions to advance into the story and towards the dismissal of the leader.<br />
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The third episode is special because the Agency accepts to send the hero to his country of birth, a Mediterranean archipelago under a military ruler, inspired by interwar fascism and many regional (both European and Arabic) military dictators.<br />
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How did he know he should come back and fight?<br />
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His cousin sent him a postcard with the dictator as main illustration of both the card and the postage stamp.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-55358983551192814412017-06-30T11:31:00.001+02:002017-06-30T11:31:11.198+02:00Two French academics study world wars on stamps<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Late 2016 two French historians of Rennes, <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Croix">Alain Croix</a> and <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Guyvarc%27h">Didier Guyvarc'h</a>, published a study on the depiction of both world wars on stamps since 1914: <i>Timbres en guerre. Les mémoires des deux conflits mondiaux </i>[Stamps at war. The memories of both world conflicts].</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In their introduction and their methodological first chapter, they explained how little historians had used postage stamps to study how governments, postal administrations, and even collectors considering the commercial trend of issues, have commemorated the Great War and World War 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Both author are stamp collectors but it's refreshing to read the current issuance policies in simple words and these policies be considered on how they impact war commemorative stamps: to sell collectibles to collectors and no more to sell a postage proof.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The book cover: (<a href="http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=4214">Presses universitaires de Rennes</a>, 2016).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">C</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">hapters 2 to 4 told the chronological stories of the stamps issued. The stamps from 1914 to 1945 are divided in 3 parts: the time of apprenticeship during the Great War ; the stamps illustrating the past war... or the dreaded war (to come?) after 1918 ; and finally how stamps became fully part of the propaganda machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chapter 3 expands on what the countries and posts wished their national and international public to remember of the two wars during the Cold War. Chapter 4 starting 1989 describes the evolution between pedagogy (the "memory duty" / <i>devoir de mémoire</i> in French) facing misuse of history and stamps in some countries and on some topics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chapters 5 and 6 are topical synthesis. Croix and Guyvarc'h summarize the common element and main evolution of their subject, highlighting further some countries and problems of stamp illustrations evoked in the chronological chapters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I try to summarize some of them, that may inspire philatelists in their collection.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mais, et Hiroshima et Nagasaki ? Pas aux États-Unis pour l'émission du cinquantenaire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Peut-être aux Marshall... (<i><a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/159670-1995--world-war-ii-souvenir-sheet-u-s">via CollectorsWeekly.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All issuing countries are evoked, at least by groups. Post-independence African countries haven't been interested in these topics. C</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">ontrary to Marshall Islands, an associated state of the U.S.. The Marshall issue are one of many commercial opportunities to sell to thematical collectors, but Croix and Guywarc'h compare its issues to the United States Postal Service's. Politically what could the USPS put on its stamps when facing the U.S. politicians, veterans' associations and the public's modesty?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Weapons of Victory</i>, a long-lived stamp series in Russia. Here the 2009 example.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eastern European issuing policies were diverse and explain how divided was the Communist Block after the death of Stalin in 1953. The German Democratic Republic illustrated as many Nazi German massacres as possible whereas West Germany's first stamp on WW2 was 1955 to rememorate the exodus of Germans from East European countries. Poland insisted on the population's heroism and martyrdom, trying subtely to distance the country from the Soviet Union. The latter have been insisting on the October Revolution (1917) and the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945), putting even weaponry and medals on stamps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The authors consider the genocide of the Jew to be ill-illustrated since 1945. A first criticism is common to many topic: a stamp can be about this tragedy but the reader of the stamp needs to have culture to understand it. Either the stamp depicts a person without any illustration of its life and death, or the subject is treated with highly allegorical symbolism (the 1995 Europa stamps are quoting as examples of this problem).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the book's example of WW2 or not stamp: <i>Honoring the Woman</i> or very discretly celebrating a French communist resistant who died in a concentration camp? (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Danielle_Casanova_1983">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Exceptions exist of course: explicit stamps of Israel, stricking Austria's </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Niemals vergessen </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">[Never forget] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">series of 1946, and the distance many Anglo-Saxon countries put between the wars and their stamps until recently - but for the Australian and New Zealand exceptions since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign">Gallipoli</a> in 1915-1916.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two historians are astounished by the 3rd anniversary of the liberation of the Channel Islands: <a href="https://www.bfdc.co.uk/1948/channel_islands_liberation/arms_of_channel_islands.html">the gathering of vraic</a>... in the same "back to daily life" way as the British 1946 Victory issue. Seems a tradition when Newfoundland marks its soldiers' sacrifice at the Ypres by "The Trail of the caribou" stamp in 1916. To compare with the graph showing the millions of stamps printed by France for Charles de Gaulle, the last four Marshalls (especially Leclerc), numerous members of the Free French and resistant movements, and the symbolic commemoration of war and deportation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Towards the end of the book media are evoked: the actors of those wars created texts, pictures, films, radio shows and stamps. The author studied how, more and more, stamps are reproducing these documents: war posters, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima">Raising of Flag on Iwo Jima</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_a_flag_over_the_Reichstag">Raising a Flag over the Reichstag</a> photographs for example. Movies seem present, but more difficult to stamped while the role of radio in WW2 is almost invisible but for Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June 1940 in France and wherever the French stateman is celebrated. [<a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/george-vi-et-la-thematique-guerre-des.html">a Jersey 2017 issue helps add a new stamp on this topic</a>]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In conclusion, firstly: this book is fascinating for people used to study traces of the past as documents. Who decided the issue? Why this issue? What artist? What image? How many printed? What postage rate: a common one for every one to remember or a seldom use one...?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Secondly: the author succeeded partly in their global history of World War stamps. Global history is a way to study and compare different points of view of the same events. For example to study 15th century European discoveries from the African, American and Asian peoples' perspectives. Concerning the differences of depth by countries, they admitted the lack of language skills and access to postal archives to perform to every country what they did with the French <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ros_de_la_R%C3%A9sistance"><i>Heroes of Resistance</i> series</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A must-read that list in the bibliography and notes many philatelic books and articles, and other academics stamp studies all over the world.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Battle of Verdun, one hundred years later, by Maël and engraved by Elsa Catelin (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Verdun_2016">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Especially to reflect on the on-going issues: yesterday evening, Thursday 30 June 2017, La Poste presented the best 2016 issues of France after a public survey on the web. In the category of "commemorative single stamp", <a href="https://twitter.com/toutsurletimbre/status/880470915229855744">the centenary of the Battle of Verdun was chosen</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alain Croix and Didier Guyvarc'h, <i>Timbres en guerre. Les mémoires des deux conflits mondiaux</i>, ed. Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016, 214 pages ; ISBN 978-2-7535-5135-0 ; 29 euros. <a href="http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=4214">PUR webpage</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Final little criticism: an index by country would have been a very practical idea. Readers, prepare your bookmarks.</span>Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-43294703037604776212017-06-24T11:40:00.000+02:002017-07-12T11:06:07.607+02:00Week #2017.24 on SébPhilatélieThat week between 12 and 18 June 2017, nobody on the old continent can keep his eyes shut: Summer was here. And Winter was but a long-forgotten legend only the eldest spoke with glee to sceptical children who preferred to <a href="http://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/canicule/pourquoi-les-ouvertures-sauvages-debouches-d-incendie-echauffent-elles-lesesprits_2249341.html">break open the fire hydrant in the burning streets of the capital</a>...<br />
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Yes, I shouldn't bingewatch <i>Game of Thrones</i> during heatwave episodes :)<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/mais-quel-est-le-message-de-ce-timbre.html">Monday 12 June</a>: What's this stamp's message?!</b><br />
Considering my two decade long career as French voter, I am still puzzled by the message of this stamp designed by Louis Briat in 1995.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Louis Briat's National Assembly stamp, issued 15 May 1995 (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Assemblee_1995">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>)<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></td></tr>
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It commemorated the bicentenary of the Directoire decree that decided the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Five_Hundred">Council of Five-Hundred</a>, the new lower chamber of the First Republic, be hosted in the Bourbon Palace, where the National Assembly sit to this day. <a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Assemblee_1998">Another stamp in 1998</a> marks the effective installation in the building in 1798.<br />
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But the meaning of the symbols... decided by the artist... ordered or accepted by the political and postal authorities...?<br />
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After two decades of political despair in front of my democracy, I concluded that the nightly blue palace kept Delacroix's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People">Liberty Leading the People</a></i> prisoner of the political elite.<br />
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Now, under the current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_legislative_election,_2017">Macronmania</a>, I'm thinking that the People entered the sleepy palace to set the old political world ablaze... Not very <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> that idea... Is it a premonition of what would happen if he failed considering some of the new deputies: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen">Le Pen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_M%C3%A9lenchon">Mélenchon</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/au-bureau-de-poste-doaxaca-au-mexique.html">Tuesday 13 June</a>: No stamp at the Oaxaca post office. What of the Museum?</b><br />
I receive a holiday postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico. The sender was sad that no postage stamp was available at the post office of this city, famous for precolombian archeological settlements.<br />
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At least, it makes me get interested in the MUFI, the Museum of Philately, located in Oaxaca. <a href="http://www.mufi.org.mx/">Its website</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MUFI_oax"><i>Twitter</i> account</a> are quiet interesting to browse and follow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will this little fish stand still in his stamp? (<a href="https://twitter.com/MUFI_oax">MUFI's <i>Twitter</i> page, June 2017</a>).</td></tr>
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For example, yesterday Friday 23, the MUFI opened an exhibition on water and the sealife, displaying stamps of fishes <a href="https://twitter.com/MUFI_oax/status/878401165016391681">like in an aquarium</a>. And collectors of missing colors would like <a href="https://twitter.com/MUFI_oax/status/878401165016391681">the little animation</a> the MUFI team published with a Singapore 1960s error.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/lions-club-jersey-contre-la-acilite.html">Wednesday 14 June</a>: Uninspired stamps of France...</b><br />
The article in French is the evil kin of <a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/06/french-villages-got-talent-and-stamp.html">the one published the same day in English</a>.<br />
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While touristic stamps of France are often wonderful, inspired and sometimes looks innovative in treatment, commemorative anniversary are sometimes dull.<br />
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Why engraved a phi letter in the hand of a Queen of France? Fun with or against collectors? Or, I wish, an angry gesture by an engraver fed up by adding <a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2009/06/stamps-of-france-to-be-written-in-greek.html">this stupid symbol on all commemorative stamps of France since 2010</a>? I'm afraid the answer will be the former.<br />
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The main part of the article are about the centenary of the Lions Club. Too many postal operators just copy-paste the anniversary's or the organisation's logo. And have the gods of philately and good taste mercy for Monaco...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Simple designs yes, but useful design for the Lions Club (<a href="https://www.jerseystamps.com/en/Shop/Detail?c=1708&r=%2F">Jersey Stamps webshop</a>).</td></tr>
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Praise by Jersey Stamps! At least, this often accused of issuing too costly and useless stamps issued a six stamp series that <b><i><u>explains</u></i></b> what is a Lions Club for.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/de-londres-nantes-via-prague-une-poste.html">Thursday 15 June</a>: Universal Mail stamp puzzled a French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle">Muggle</a> family.</b><br />
A family from Nantes received a postcard from the son's friend visiting London.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The postcard and its many labels (<i style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/insolite-la-carte-postale-de-londres-passe-par-prague-avant-darriver-a-nantes-15-06-2017-234124">Presse Océan</a></i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">).</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.presseocean.fr/actualite/insolite-la-carte-postale-de-londres-passe-par-prague-avant-darriver-a-nantes-15-06-2017-234124">The local newspaper <i>Presse Ocean</i></a> showed the card on 15 June explaining the problem and even that the French post couldn't explain it.<br />
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Philatelists will recognize a <a href="http://www.universalmail.co.uk/">Universal Mail UK</a> stamp, the private post that aimed at tourists' international postcards.<br />
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The sending family bought a booklet at any commodities in central London, but not a post office. Universal Mail franked card can be dropped in a Royal Mail box. At the sorting center, these cards are gathered and given back to Universal Mail that forwards them by anyway at the lower cost possible.<br />
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In this case, early April, the chosen route was lenghthy in distance and time: through Praha, Czech Republic. Hence the postage paid label with the Czech Post's logo.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/royal-juin-aux-antipodes.html">Saturday 17 June</a>: Royal June of travels.</b><br />
Is it the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">Royal Philatelic Society London</a>'s June activities? Or my Summer-is-coming state of mind? For the second year in a row, I got travel inspired by the June articles and displays at 41 Devonshire, London.<br />
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I could only invite you to check the summary of the June issue of <i><a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/publications_london_philatelist.asp">The London Philatelist</a></i>, the last edited by Steve Jarvis, and <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_displays.asp">the collection and talk</a> by Frank Walton, his last as President of the society.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-13562685370917972292017-06-21T16:16:00.000+02:002017-07-12T11:06:29.196+02:00Weeks #2017.22-23 on SébPhilatélieTen days in June, before Summer hit the South of France (and the rest of Europe it seems).<br />
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<b>Thursday 1st to Sunday 4 June: Interamerican exhibition in Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon.</b><br />
During four days, the <a href="http://www.clubphilatelique.com/">Club de Saint-Pierre</a> (with a refurbished website) hosted its third international exhibition in this French overseas collectivity, <a href="http://spm-expo.com/">SPM Expo</a>, with six countries of the American continent attending.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The poster of the exhibit designed by Jean-Jacques Oliviéro (<a href="http://spm-expo.com/affiche-officielle/">official website</a>).</td></tr>
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To follow the event the website and its blog were of course useful, and were reinforced by the local radio and television public channel, <a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/">SPM 1ère</a>.<br />
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A list of reports and interviews to watch back:<br />
- Club president Stéphane Fouchard presented the event, the importance of exhibiting and the value of collecting stamps <a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/invite-redaction-fabrice-fouchard-479705.html">during the radio news on Thursday morning</a> ;<br />
- On the Wednesday evening tv news <a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/philatelie-spm-expo-2017-commence-ce-jeudi-479367.html">the mounting of the exhibit was reported</a> ;<br />
- On Friday the camera followed high school students training their Spanish with Jaime Benavides, the Mexican representative (<a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/emissions/le-journal-de-saint-pierre-et-miquelon">on this link</a> look for the 2 June 2017 edition), followed by Fouchard explaining this was the sole continental competition for 2017 and the impact for the archipelago ;<br />
- On Sunday (<a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/grand-prix-exposition-philatelique-2017-attribue-jean-jacques-tillard-481057.html">article on Monday</a>) a report of the award ceremony took place with the 109th and 110th medal and Grand Prix for <a href="http://www.spm-philatelie.com/">Jean-Jacques Tillard</a> and a gold medal for Loïc Detcheverry for <i>Cancellations of Nova Scotia on stamps of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon</i>. Jim Taylor, President of <a href="https://www.rpsc.org/">The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada</a> was interviewed too.<br />
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<b>Sunday 4 June: 50 years of <i>Machin</i>, 10 years of philatelying in English.</b><br />
A personal article on me and the English language. It dated well before I needing it for philatelic purposes, but since my first subscription to <i>Stamp Magazine</i>, English philatelic reading became quite addictive.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The June 2007 issue of <i><a href="http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/">Stamp Magazine</a></i> that encouraged my continuing subscription.</td></tr>
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The <i>Machin</i> series is to thank for too.<br />
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<b>Wednesday 7 June: Were chocolate bar wrapping be recess-printed!</b><br />
<i>Warning: open class topic getting off-topic... but...</i><br />
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After many weeks of thoughts I finally opened and ate <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/collections/nav-all/artisan-bars">the Rococo Chocolates bar</a> I bought last January in Chester (<a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/04/open-class-chocolate-full-sail-from.html">remember</a>). A powerful taste for only 63% dark chocolate from Peru!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Okay, I admit, this item is damaged. I need to learn how to unmint chocolate packaging... Must be like carefully open envelopes.</td></tr>
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Back to philately... Let's try at least.<br />
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The drawing outside and inside the cardboard wrapper are the same that of the shopping bags and could have been printed in intaglio.<br />
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The article was written to mark the day <a href="https://twitter.com/RococoChester">the Rococo Chester team</a> opened its new premises: 118 Northgate.<br />
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<b>Friday 9 June: Another souvenir of Frédéric Bazille's paintings.</b><br />
Thank to Michel Soulié, President of the <a href="http://www.asso-philatelique-montpellier.fr/">Montpellier Philatelic Association</a>, I now held a 1980 souvenir edited by the association for the Day of the Stamp, <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-une-autre-vue-de.html">inspired by <i>The Pink Dress</i></a>, another view of the Castelnau village by impressionist Frédéric Bazille.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Local Montpellier souvenir at the Day of the Stamp 1980, illustrated by G. Jeanjean, inspired by Frédéric Bazille.</td></tr>
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Readers in the Americas could see paintings of Montpellier-born Bazille in Washington, D.C. <a href="https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2017/frederic-bazille-and-the-birth-of-impressionism.html">until the 9th of July at the National Gallery of Art</a>.<br />
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<b>Sunday 11 June: The Postal Museum to open 28 July in London.</b><br />
Finally - some almost waited 20 years - the Postal Museum is to open in London on Friday 28 July 2017.<br />
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More informations on the <a href="https://postalmuseum.org/">Museum's website</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/thepostalmuseum"><i>Twitter </i>account</a>.<br />
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Today, 21 June, there still some informations missing, especially how to book for the Mail Rail, the new attraction reactivating the former London postal underground train of the British Post Office.<br />
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After such ten days, Spring felt very well, the Winter children thought... But <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Is_Coming">Summer was coming</a>.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-55134564124758408702017-06-14T22:13:00.001+02:002017-08-24T15:51:32.130+02:00French villages got talent... and a stamp<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Tuesday 13 June 2017, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochefort-en-Terre">Rochefort-en-Terre</a> hosted the one-night contest <i><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Village_pr%C3%A9f%C3%A9r%C3%A9_des_Fran%C3%A7ais">Le Village préféré des Français</a></i> on France 2, the main public television channel, presented by Stéphane Bern, our current perfect son-in-law and expert on European royalty.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very rare event in France nowadays: a new stamp announced on prime time tv (<a href="http://www.toutelatele.com/audiences-tv-du-mardi-13-juin-2017-france-angleterre-net-leader-sur-tf1-bienvenue-a-nimbao-en-peine-sur-m6-le-retour-de-la-momie-ecrase-les-3-mousquetaires-91594">ok, not the best audience of the night facing an international football match</a>) and in a knowledgeable way: the picture shown is the engraved one, not the computer before gravure one (<a href="https://www.france.tv/france-2/le-village-prefere-des-francais/">France 2</a>, catched and captured <a href="https://blog-philatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/timbre-rochefort-en-terre-le-village.html">thank to Dominique Stephan of the <i>Blog philatélie</i></a>, an important blog for amateur of France from the <i>Sower</i> to current events).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The village in Morbihan, Brittany, won the 2016 edition of the show created in 2012 and broadcasted live in June. A sort of <i>Let's spend the holidays in our homeland</i>. I have been told of many past participating villages by weekenders, hikers and... of course: stamps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a long time now the French post has a tradition of issuing "touristic stamps" on cities, villages, regions, natural parks, islands,... And whatever techniques the artists and the printer used, the result is often far better and enjoyable than the other main category: anniversaries of personalities and institutions that can be very logo-only or <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/lions-club-jersey-contre-la-acilite.html">with not enough hints of why they are commemorated</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes the smaller the place, the bolder the artist or the printer: multicolor intaglio printing are common in France, but not often with such stricking color as bright red on quieter colors. Other examples can be found (browse <i><a href="http://phil-ouest.com/">Phil-Ouest.com</a></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> database or your </span><a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2015/11/from-dallay-to-spink-through-zombie.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dallay/Spink catalogue</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) with seldom colors such as brown, violet and dark orange together for village close to mountainous cliffs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Artists' side: you can find modern-style illustration like <a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=St_Brevin_2016">the summer beach of Saint-Brévin-Les Pins last year</a>, or use of the sky and clouds to place symbolic elements of a city.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The illustration project by Elsa Catelin before engraving (<i><a href="https://blog-philatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/timbre-rochefort-en-terre-le-village.html">via Blog Philatélie</a></i>). It's the form generally presented by Phil@poste in its catalogues and publications.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the 2017 edition of the tv show, the stamp for Rochefort-sur-Terre was presented in exclusivity. The stamp was added at the last moment (officially in May) in the philatelic program and its illustration hidden until tuesday night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enthusiastically (his normal behavior) Stéphane Bern showed the inside of a file to the camera: a complete sheet of the new stamp alongside the engraved one-page souvenir Phil@poste edits with each issue. He insisted enough on the artist <a href="http://stampengravers.blogspot.fr/search?q=catelin">Elsa Catelin</a>, one of La Poste's in-house engravers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First day cancel in Rochefort-en-Terre (<a href="https://twitter.com/LPNews_BZH/status/874967947739111424">La Poste Bretagne's <i>Twitter</i> account</a>)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And the announcement: the first of day of sale for the morrow - Wednesday 14 - in Rochefort and </span><a href="http://www.lecarredencre.fr/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Carré d'Encre</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Phil@poste's shop in Paris, and the general sale on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This show can be watched again for 30 days (but because of TV tax that may be not possible outside France): <a href="https://www.france.tv/france-2/le-village-prefere-des-francais/">over here</a>. The stamp announcement was cut and posted <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22560%22%20height=%22315%22%20src=%22https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/V6s57K7BZOI?rel=0?ecver=1%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E">on <i>youTube</i> over here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a more negative article on the new stamps on France: read <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/06/lions-club-jersey-contre-la-acilite.html">this other article</a> in French on <i>SébPhilatélie</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Note added Thursday 24 August 2017:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><a href="http://mondephilatelique.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/08/22/polemique-a-propos-du-timbre-sur-rochefort-en-terre-dans-lecho-de-la-timbrologie/#comments">This televised event displeased the editor of <i>L'Écho de la timbrologie</i></a>, one of the three French philatelic monthly magazines, because of the embargo on the stamp and all intelligence about its issue, place of first day of cancel, etc. La Poste is accused of hiding news from the usual stamp collectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Until now I was only aware of British dealers being unable of preparing first day cachet for "secret issue", that Royal Mail hadn't even told them the topic. And when their amateur competition on auction websites displaying stamps to be issued ,which appearance was under embargo until media launch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Rest the question: How did these media launch attract non collectors to stamps?</span>Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-41024896390975919572017-05-27T21:54:00.000+02:002017-05-28T15:24:33.802+02:00Week #2017.19 to 21 on SébPhilately and French televisionOnly five articles in three weeks?!<br />
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When we say that French people are lazy with all the May's Banking holidays while the summer sun's arriving too: Labour Day, Victory Day, Ascension, and soon Pentecost... For the latter two: yes, we boast ourselves of being a secular republic.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/timbres-micro-philippin-et-giga-russe.html">Thursday 11 May</a>: Micro-Philippinian vs Macro-Russian stamps.</b><br />
Two postcards, two very different stamps.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A stamp and a cancel very haphazardly made... But efficient and cost saving. Thank you Pascale for the postcard from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohol">Bohol</a> island.</td></tr>
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Size: 2.5 x 2.2 cm for PhilPost 2015 issue on its Mailing Center picturing the Central Post Office of the capital Manila. Even if the composition is a superposition of... unequal text, picture and logo. The cancel of the Tourist Center is not traditionall round, but very horizontal too.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Large 1997 painting of the "Russian" monastery in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos">Mount Athos</a>, autonomous orthodox enclave in Northern Greece. Thanl you Olga <i>via <a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/">Postcrossing</a></i>.</td></tr>
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The complete contrary to this large painting, gold shining, round and neatly cancelled 5 cm square stamp from Russia.<br />
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Dmitri Anatolyevich Belyukin, one of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Artist_of_the_Russian_Federation">current institutional painter of the Federation</a>, painted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Panteleimon_Monastery">Saint Panteleimon</a>, a monastery founded originally by monks from Russian plains in the 11th century. The printer did a very good job with these bright colors.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/des-francais-libres-de-40-au-cameroun.html">Saturday 13 May</a>: Free French postal history in London.</b><br />
In April the <a href="http://www.rossitertrust.com/">Stuart Rossiter Trust</a>, a British foundation encouraging postal history research, published <i>The Free French in London 1940-1945</i> by Peter A. Baker.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The announcing flyer.</td></tr>
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In a 64 illustrated book, the author studies the mail from the forces, administrations and government gathered around Charles de Gaulle between 1940 and 1945.<br />
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9.50 British pounds plus postage.<br />
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If you are interested in postal history of the military and French episodes such as the French-Prussian War of 1870-1871, check the publications by or helped by the Trust.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/finlandia-2017-4-jeux-videos.html">Wednesday 17 May</a>: 4 Android video games for Finlandia 2017.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The main page of the project: <a href="http://16tiko.projects.tamk.fi/en/">http://16tiko.projects.tamk.fi/en/</a></td></tr>
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In the months before European philatelic exhibition <a href="https://www.finlandia2017.fi/">Finlandia 2017</a>, the <a href="http://vapriikki.fi/en/">museums of Tampere</a> and the Tampere University of Applied Science worked together on a project for business information students: they had to create video games inspired by the museums.<br />
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The 25 games created can be downloaded and played on smartphones and tablets running with Android. On Google's Play Store look for the titles and help yourself with the icons.<br />
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Four of them are inspired by the Posti Museo, the Finnish postal museum opened Septembre 2014.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The postal and philatelic games' icons (<a href="http://16tiko.projects.tamk.fi/en/">site of the projet</a>).</td></tr>
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Two of them are "scrollers": you have to move the main character or boat on the screen to avoid obstacles and retrieve flying letters in Finnish landscapes and coasts (<a href="http://16tiko3d.projects.tamk.fi/eng/englishIndex.php"><i>Postal History</i> by NoClueGames</a>) and mail barrels lost at sea (<a href="http://16tiko3b.projects.tamk.fi/index_en.php"><i>Castaway</i> by North Star</a>).<br />
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Again in <a href="http://16tiko3e.projects.tamk.fi/indexEng.php"><i>Stampedu</i> by Placeholdr Software</a> (for <i>stamp stampede</i>), the player must follow the rythm of the game: letters of different rates are descending quicker and quicker. Would you succeed to frank them correctly while avoiding dangerous fuming black ones. Your reward: stamps!!! At least digitised ones by topics.<br />
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<a href="http://16tiko3c.projects.tamk.fi/indexenglish.php"><i>World of Stamps</i> by Team Vasama</a> will certainly interest elder collectors: quiz on countries and topics of stamps with stamps to collect as prizes.<br />
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An interesting initiative.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/de-la-philatelie-laotienne-luang-prabang.html">Monday 22 May</a>: A philatelic counter in Luang Prabang, Laos.</b><br />
Without being hopeful, a traveller friend of mine discovered that Luang Prabang has a philatelic counter for 55'000 inhabitants!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A philatelic counter in central Laos in French! A little sign in English will help the majority of tourists still writing postcards (with Tomath's autorisation).</td></tr>
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Okay, the city and surroundings are touristic, with I am told fabulous falls and river beaches, including places worthy of a former royal capital.<br />
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Stamps bought there seem to spread from 2010 to 2015, Buddhist inspired as much as the 40th anniversary of the National Day with all the symbols of a communist people's régime.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/suomi-finland-in-my-heart-forever.html">Saturday 27 May</a>: "Suomi! Finland in my heart... Forever!"</b><br />
This week took place <a href="https://finlandia2017.fi/">Finlandia 2017</a>, an European exhibition, in Tampere where the <a href="https://www.postimuseo.fi/en/">Finnish postal museum</a> was opened in September 2014 - remember: it opened with a correspondence exhibit that permitted <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2014/04/marian-gloire-et-beaute-spin-off-en.html">a media frenzy minisheet</a>.<br />
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Not able to attend, I summarize what stamp issues marked this event organised along the year of the centenary of Finland's independence.<br />
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<b>Saturday 27 May p.m.: The many problems of first and last kilometers of transportation.</b><br />
On Saturday early afternoon French public channel France 2 proposed an economic weekly magazine, <i>Tout compte fait</i>, on the transportation of food, mail and goods nowadays.<br />
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It summarizes with efficience how the city delivery by bike works (or not considering health and working insurance), how La Poste put its postmen at new tasks to find new revenue (delivering medicine, watching on city problems, visiting elderly), and how barges on river can help deliver goods and food in the country and inside the city.<br />
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The reports can be watched again <a href="https://www.france.tv/france-2/tout-compte-fait/147259-emission-du-samedi-27-mai-2017.html">at this address</a> for a week after broadcast. But it may appear on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_4WpPcSfpxsSqA6hNpqJbg">the magazine's <i>youTube</i> page</a> afterwards.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-53553912706928612122017-05-08T21:09:00.000+02:002017-05-08T21:09:46.820+02:00Weeks #2017.17-18 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/un-philateliste-matignon.html">Tuesday 25 April</a>: A philatelist in Hôtel Matignon.</b><br />
The Hôtel Matignon is the official residence of the French Prime Minister since it was confiscated and then bought to Austria after the First World War. A place in Paris that the Austrian Empire received from the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Brignole_Sale_De_Ferrari">Duchess of Galliera</a> to serve as its embassy in the French capitale.<br />
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What is the connection to philately?<br />
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Ferrari on a 1968 stamp issued by Liechtenstein (<i><a href="http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/12866-Philipp_von_Ferrari_1848-1917-Pioneers_of_the_Philately-Liechtenstein">Colnect.com</a></i>).</div>
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She was the mother of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_von_Ferrary">Philipp von Ferrary</a>, the famous and excentric rare stamp collector who refused to inherit the title and wealth of his father.<br />
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His life and how his family perceived it (not good) is the object of an article by Jeremy Havardi, published in the May issue of <i><a href="http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/">Stamp Magazine</a></i>.<br />
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Concerning the name of the first Prime Minister of 39 year old President Emmanuel Macron... Who knows? The answer will be given next Sunday after the presidential investiture.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/les-petits-drames-des-completistes.html">Sunday 30 April</a>: The little miseries of the British completist collectors.</b><br />
The life of a British collector who wish to own a most complete collection of new issue from Royal Mail is already expensive. Lastly it's becoming quite awful.<br />
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The Guernsey philatelic service has begun to overprint its Post & Go stamps every time a cruise ship enters St. Peter's Port... but accepted with difficulties subscription to these series.<br />
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In <i>Stamp Magazine </i>dated May 2017 Richard West complained he received his 50 pounds worth mini-sheet of the last Her Majesty Accession <i>Machin </i>stamp... with two margins removed so that it could fit the Royal Mail order service's protection and envelope.<br />
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Finally, the two main blogs to be informed live on new British issues are dubitative in front of the next <i>Mills</i> issue next June. The stamps are focusing on England... South East England... very near London... As a caricature of the conservative don't-care of the country map. Whereas one stamp could have being a hit with Tolkien's fanatics.<br />
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English-able readers are invited to read <i><a href="http://blog.norphil.co.uk/">Norvic Philatelics</a></i> and <i><a href="http://commonwealthstampsopinion.blogspot.fr/">The Commonwealth Stamp Opinion</a></i> blogs for more details (precise links in the article in French).<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/lecture-diagonale-du-palmares-de-phila.html">Tuesday 2 May</a>: Quick reading of the French National Exhibition palmares.</b><br />
During the bank holiday week-end for Labor Day (1 May in France), the French Federation of Philatelic Associations gathered in Cholet, West of France, for Phila-France 2017 and his annual congress.<br />
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The palmares of the national exhibition is online <a href="http://www.ffap.net/Expositions/Competition.php?Annee=2017&id_expo=211">over here</a>.<br />
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The article in French is full of my curiosity in front of titles and topics in the list, unable I was to attend the show.<br />
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But the Grand Prix was awarded Olivier Gervais' collection on Luminescence on French definitive stamps (1959-2009), a major advancement for this speciality. Mr. Gervais is the author of <a href="http://www.timbres-barres-phosphorescentes.fr/">an impressive website</a> and <a href="https://blog-philatelie-timbrephosphonews.blogspot.fr/">updated blog</a> on the topic. Now he exhibited , may his website be recognised by organised philatelic organisations...<br />
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On another philatelic specialist, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon expert <a href="http://www.spm-philatelie.com/">Jean-Jacques Tillard</a> got another gold medal... He is on a good way to <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2016/05/cent-medailles-dor-celebrees-pour.html">the 200th gold</a> with the <i>Group</i> series of the French territory near the Canadian coast. Note that Saint-Pierre will host <a href="http://spm-expo.com/">a new international exhibition early June 2017</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/may-force-be-with-you.html">Thursday 4 May</a>: May the Stamp be with you.</b><br />
On the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day">Day of the Force</a> and of Prince Philip's future retirement announcement - and anniversary week of the Penny Black issue in 1840, the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">Royal Philatelic Society London</a>, the <a href="http://thephilatelictraderssociety.co.uk/national-stamp-celebration-day-1-week-to-go/">Philatelic Traders Society</a> and many dealers, agencies, collectors join their forces for the first <b>National Stamp Day Celebration</b> of the United Kingdom.<br />
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The monthly <i><a href="https://www.collectors-club-of-great-britain.co.uk/stamps-coins/articles/gb-stamps/get-involved-with-national-stamp-celebration-day-on-4-may">Stamp & Coin Mart</a></i> proposed ideas to stamp collectors to get involve in this promoting effort of the hobby.<br />
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You can check two hastag words on Twitter to follow happenings and consequences: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stickastamp?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash">#stickastamp</a> (thanks to <a href="https://www.buckinghamcovers.com/">Buckingham Covers</a>' stickers) et <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/celebratestamps17?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash">#celebratestamps17</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/05/lafrique-francophone-un-triangle-des.html">Monday 8 May</a>: French speaking Africa, a philatelic Bermuda Triangle?</b><br />
On one Saturday, May 6th, three occasions show studying and collecting French speaking African recent stamps and postal history need patience and research.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">This stamp of Niger is quoted 125 USD by Scott catalogue who doesn't know it uncancelled... Check low valued auctions for unused ones and your envelope shoebox... Who knows? (unused stamp <i><a href="https://www.hipstamp.com/listing/niger-1997-scott-953-used-abdou-moumouni-dioffo/6514615">via Hipstamp</a></i>).</td></tr>
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English speaking readers are invited to check the <i><a href="http://www.stampboards.com/">StampBoard.com's</a></i> threads if they have information on the mysterious Tunisian Klussendorf-type ATM stamp (1999-2000) and Niger's Abdou Moumouni Dioffo stamp (1997) whose catalogue listings are non existent for the former, or seems to imply the greatest of scarcity unused, even rarity cancelled.<br />
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Why Ivory Coast issued a minisheet in 2001 for a Universal Postal Union Congress that never took place in Abidjan and two others in August 2015, four months after a UPU meeting in Geneva with an illustration of the post office in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand-Bassam">Grand Bassam</a>, are the object of an article by Marc Parren in <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/LP_Editions.asp">the May 2017 issue of <i>The London Philatelist</i></a>.<br />
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With historic and philatelic research, the author proposed to discover the recent political crisis in Ivory Coast, the military mail sent during the French and United Nations missions (the latter still continuing), and how the country succeeded to get the right to host the 2020 UPU Congress.<br />
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A French blog, <i><a href="http://poste-aux-armees.blogspot.fr/">La Poste aux armées</a></i>, on military mail <a href="http://poste-aux-armees.blogspot.fr/2014/08/le-service-postal-linternational-pour_31.html">helps to complete</a> Mr. Parren's paper: recently, the French field postal service was privatised into the "<i>Service postal international pour la Défense</i>" (SPID, Postal International Service for the Defense) and since 2012 served by a joint operation by the French post and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodexo">Sodexo</a>, a food services and facilities management company.<br />
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La Poste and Sodexo's contract with the Ministry of Defense was extended for 4 years (<a href="http://fr.sodexo.com/files/live/sites/sdxcom-fr/files/050C_Country.com_France_(French)/Building_Blocks/LOCAL/Multimedia/PDF/080_Communiqu%C3%A9_de_presse_2017/CdP%20Sodexo-La%20Poste%20SPID%20FR.pdf">announced last February</a>).Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-8639348163565237202017-04-24T09:47:00.000+02:002017-04-24T09:47:39.744+02:00Week #2017.16 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/timbres-et-monnaies-de-nouvelle.html">Monday 17 April</a>: How to promote stamps and coins from overseas territories.</b><br />
New Caledonia and Bermuda are on the media road to promote their stamps and coins.<br />
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Matrixes of the 100 Pacific Franc coins: Marianne common face (here without the engraved year) and the New Caledonian and the French Polynesian faces. Wallis-et-Futuna using both (<a href="http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/usine-monnaie-paris-qui-produit-encore-francs-francs-pacifique-458767.html">photograph by Alain Jeannin, La 1ère, March 2017</a>).</div>
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For the French very autonomous collectivity the Director of <a href="https://caledoscope.opt.nc/">Calédoscope</a>, the philatelic agency, answered questions for monthly <i>Atout timbres</i>. The minting of Franc Pacifique coins was reported by public local channels France 3 and La 1ère late March.<br />
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In Bermuda the <a href="http://www.bpo.bm/philatelic.aspx">Director of the philatelic bureau</a> Stanley Taylor participated in a promotion video ordered to BermudaMedia. It was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnSbBu8rtM">published early this April on <i>youTube</i></a>. Mr Taylor is known to <i>Gibbons Stamp Monthly</i>'s readers: Basil Herwald reported his meeting with him in the July 2015 issue.<br />
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<b>Tuesday 18 April: music cinderella for Arthur Russell.</b><br />
Thank to French public and eclectic music radio <a href="http://www.fipradio.fr/">FIP</a> (<a href="http://www.fotfip.online/google-for-fip-and-this-is-what-you-get/">no, not the <i>Fédération internationale de philatélie</i></a>) - a sort of almost no talk <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music">BBC 6 Music</a> - I encounter this stamped album cover.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i><a href="https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/arthurs-landing">Arthur's Landing</a></i> album cover inspired by a certain philatelic era (<a href="https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/arthurs-landing" style="font-style: italic;">Band Camp website</a> of the label <a href="http://www.strut-records.com/">Strut</a>).</td></tr>
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Being a moron concerning music styles, listening to FIP while streetwalking helps me forget the traffic jam noises and to discover new things. The smartphone ear allows to see the album cover on the sleepmode screen.<br />
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That's how I disover this cinderella style cover: <i><a href="https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/arthurs-landing">Arthur's Landing</a></i> is an hommage album by friends of New York artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Russell_(musician)">Arthur Russell</a> (1951-1992), issued 2010-2011.<br />
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Philatelist of the Interwar Period would like the design ; those into aerophilately <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_ardua_ad_astra">the motto in Latin</a>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/a-quand-obliteration-proportionnelle.html">Thursday 20 April</a>: Proportional cancellations for proportional rates?</b><br />
For 16 months now, the French post has been carrying pricing in proportion rates: 1 stamp for the 1st weightband, 2 for the second, etc.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Corner of a large envelope 250-500 grams, hence the four adhesive stamp block from an illustrated booklet, partially cancelled 31 January 2017.</td></tr>
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But the machine cancellation in sorting office didn't change : a line for upper stuck stamps...<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/votons-et-timbrifions.html">Saturday 22 April</a>: Let's vote! And stamp.</b><br />
After a far too long presidential campaign - primaries... - French citizens are enjoying an almost political free week-end: the law forbid candidates, parties, television and radio channels to express political messages.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A <i>porte-timbre</i> cinderella booklet for the 2012 presidential election createed and sold by <a href="http://www.historiaphil.com/boutique/-presidentielle-2012/4380-ep-02-1fd-2002-elections-presidentielles-2002-1er-tour.html"><i>HistoriaPhil.com</i></a>, the website of the Éditions philatéliques européennes.</td></tr>
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The most philatelist will try to create a presidential collection: see <a href="http://presidents.chez-alice.fr/">this interesting website <i>Les Présidents de la République par les timbres</i></a> or try every electoral April issue of French philatelic magazines since the first universal suffrage presidential election in 1969.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/quelques-nouvelles-dici-et-de-la.html">Sunday 23 April</a>: newsbits in Paris and London.</b><br />
In Paris, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/macron-set-to-face-le-pen-after-first-round-of-french-presidential-election">Mr Macr</a>... Sorry, too strong is the force of media hypnosis.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/timbresffap">The FFAP's <i>Twitter</i> page</a> on Sunday 24 April 2017.</td></tr>
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In the Parisian headquarters of the <a href="http://www.ffap.net/">French Philatelic Associations Federation</a>, someone rediscovered the insitution's <a href="https://twitter.com/timbresffap">got a Twitter account</a> that was restarted March 22nd after three years of silence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">George James, <a href="https://www.spink.com/">Spink</a>'s philatelic specialist presents a collection for sale, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGgDGWmr-8">on 18 April on <i>youTube</i></a>.</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Spinkauctions/videos">Let's enjoy this moment</a>, a philatelic collection sale by London auction house Spink was the subject of a presentation video this past week: <a href="https://www.spink.com/auction.aspx?id=17033">Arthur Gray's predecimal elizabethan Australia collection</a>, with sketches, essays, stamps, varieties,...<br />
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A nice catalogue.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-17980587017224612372017-04-18T21:12:00.000+02:002017-04-18T21:12:26.805+02:00Week #2017.15 on SébPhilatélieQuite a week for non philatelic items viewed by a philatelist maniac.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/les-quetes-fedex-dans-les-jeux-video.html">Monday 10 April</a>: "Fedex quests" in video game.</b><br />
Players of aventure-action and open world video games have developed their own slang along the episodes of different series of such games, from <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls">The Elder Scrolls</a></i> to the current <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild">Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild</a></i>, including the part-parodicly American, part-seriously criminal <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto">Grand Theft Auto</a></i>s.<br />
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One of those expressions is a reproach: while some missions are compulsory to conclude the main story, the open world permits a lot of exploration and meetings of characters asking the player for help to carry a letter or find some goods.<br />
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In practice these secondary missions call for a lot or return trips, hence the expression "Fedex quest" appeared it seems in the 1990s when the develivery company was a star in America: you move everywhere on the map to carry, bring, etc. like a Fedex truck driver.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/exigeantes-et-plaisantes-conferences.html">Wednesday 12 April</a>: Challenging yet pleasant conferences at the RPSL.</b><br />
A summary of two recent filmed conferences at the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">Royal Philatelic Society London</a>, whose display summaries are <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_displays.asp">available for all the Society's website</a>.<br />
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Their topic and very specialist approch would have me run away as quick as possible a few years ago, but the volunteering philatelists and postal historians were so enthusiast and good story-tellers that anyone curious could entertain discovering the postal stationery of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State">Orange Free State</a>, a Boer republic of the late 19th century, by Mike Smith (23 February), and the first decades of the psotal history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australia">South Australia</a> by Pat Grimwood-Taylor (6 April).<br />
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To watch: an Orange stamped card used in short-lived <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaland">Republic of Stellaland</a>, a card signed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien">Tolkien</a>'s father - yes, <i>the</i> Tolkien born in Bloemfontein and major creator of languages and fantasy universe. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, many destinations from South Australia were presented, plus a letter from a small oulet in the Northern Territory to Winbledon, England and its "Too Late" mark... that led to weeks of travelling the wilds within and the ocean without the Austral continent.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/effets-boomerang-aux-pays-bas-et-aux.html">Friday 14 April</a>: boomerang effects in the Netherlands and for the Maldives.</b><br />
The force of philatelists were shown to two organisations these recent times.<br />
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First when PostNL decided, starting January 1st, to call back all datestamps from postal counters in private shops, meaning that stamps on all parcels and registered letters would be pen cancelled (standard letters continuing to be machine cancelled in sorting plants). The post company will resume cancellations at postal counters next June with bright new datestamps. A story to discover and follow on <a href="http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=75280"><i>StampBoards</i> forum</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.wopa-stamps.com/">WOPA</a>, the Gibraltar-organised website to gather official philatelic bureaus to sell their stamp at face values to international clients, interrupted the page of the Maldives after only a full day, when <a href="http://commonwealthstampsopinion.blogspot.fr/2017/04/947-strange-but-true-maldives-joins-wopa.html">the <i>Commonwealth Stamp Opinion</i> blog's webmaster and readers wrote down their doubts</a> that the Maldives postal operator was the seller. They believe the agency providing the very numerous stamps and minisheets in the name of Bangladesh was behind. One of WOPA officers intervenes to assure he will check again.<br />
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After all, the other postal operators who are issuing too much stamps, have the openess to sell them themselves on WOPA.<br />
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<b>Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 April: Open class chocolate between Chester and Grenada.</b><br />
<i><a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/04/open-class-chocolate-full-sail-from.html">Theses Easter articles</a> were transled on SebPhilately's.</i><br />
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Note: no, this blogger did not receive any free chocolate from <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/">Rococo</a>, but is eager to get back to their Chester or London stores... Is thinking of ordering 2 kilograms of choco soon...<br />
<br />Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-50068863781282347902017-04-16T10:36:00.000+02:002017-04-16T11:03:03.535+02:00Open class chocolate: full sail from Grenada to ChesterNon-religious Easter and personal interests: let's eat fair and sustainable chocolate Britishly and Commonwealthly! With philatelic nibs here and there: <a href="http://www.abps.org.uk/Publications/Leaflets/index.xalter">open class</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/collections/rococo-home/products/rococo-juco-bag">Jute and cotton bag with the colors and engravings of Rococo Chocolates</a>, sold since early 2017 (photograph taken at home, my apologies for the designer).</td></tr>
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If chocolate has been of course a good part of comfort eating in my youth, it was surely more for the sugar in it until I looked for taste two decades ago.<br />
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This search finds an interesting and unexpected turn four years ago, April 2013, during the first of my yearly trip to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester">Chester</a>, north-west of England. I was early for a meeting under the Victoria clock on Eastgate when I noticed the modest but joyfully pastel display of a <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/">Rococo Chocolates</a> shop... far more modest than the exaggerated and nauseating - and I love chocolate... - fountains of liquid chocolate by their luxuous competitor down the street.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Eastgate in Chester historic center and the 1897-1899 clock. The Rococo store is - for a few weeks now - on the left after the fortification (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" style="font-size: 12.8px;">photograph under licence: Creative Commons by-nc-nd 4.0</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">)</span>.</td></tr>
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The shop employees were very courteous, not invading in their advices, but open to conversation on a the work of chocolate. I discover back home that it was opened in 2012 in this provincial <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2014/04/visite-philatelique-et-historique-la.html">timbered house</a> town by a London-based chocolate-maker <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/pages/all-about-chantal">Chantal Coady</a>, at work since 1983.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The shop under East Gate (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">photographie sous licence Creative Commons by-nc-nd 4.0</a>).</td></tr>
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Now how will I go back to philately? The bags.<br />
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From the plastic ones four years ago (and banned for obvious sustainaible reasons by the European Union members) to the cardboard ones nowadays (next picture), Rococo promotes itself with reproduction of chocolate moulds, in their engraving forms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The current cardboard bag at <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/">Rococo Chocolates</a>. Engravings and chocolate... Let's pray I haven't brought ideas in the mind of Royal Mail and La Poste salesmen: the philatelic program reissued in chocolate form for Christmas.</td></tr>
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Easter eggs, birds and fishes, and a cut pod full of cocoa beans. Hmmm.<br />
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New issues discovered during my last visit, January 2017, were the sale of a new jute/juto bag - the first picture of this article - and <a href="https://twitter.com/rococochester">the Chester shop</a> going to <a href="http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/welcome-to-chesters-chocolate-factory-12811103">move in May to Northgate Street</a>, on the other side of Chester Cathedral. The current store location was chosen by the initial links between Coady's company and the real estate group <a href="http://www.grosvenor.com/">Grosvenor</a> in London, but put between a restaurant and the hall of Grosvenor Hotel.<br />
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The new one, between a small post office and a cheese shop, will have more space that will enable tea house activities and chocolate making and tasting sessions in the basement. "Made in Chester". Can I wait until my 2018 pilgrimage to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester#Roman">the Roman city</a>.<br />
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For now, let's stick with my 2017 purchase.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The front of a <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/collections/grenada">Grenada Chocolate Company</a> packaging, distributed by Rococo Chocolates.</td></tr>
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Compared to the four previous visit to <a href="https://twitter.com/rococochester">Rococo Chester</a>, this year I got more freedom concerning luggage size imposed by low cost airline companies. After a hanful of floral decorated and tasting <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/collections/bee-bars" style="font-style: italic;">Bee Bars</a>, I accepted the manager's proposal for <i><a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/collections/chocolate-bars">Artisan Bars</a></i> ; for philatelic purposes: if the former are like single definitive postage stamp, the latter are booklets of stamps :)<br />
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I even listened - and was successfully sold - the history of <a href="https://www.grenadachocolate.com/">The Grenada Chocolate Company</a>, whose drawn landscape packaging make its bars illustrated stamp booklet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The full packaging... No, sorry, no picture of actual chocolate: how could I and my colleagues during a Friday noon lunch have succeeded to save a bit of chocolate for illustration. But what a tasteful memory...</td></tr>
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<i>Tree-to-bar</i> chocolate the motto claims. The company, founded 1999 by three gentlemen, is a cocoa farmers' and chocolate makers' cooperative in Hermitage, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick_Parish,_Grenada">Saint Patrick Parish</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada">Grenada</a>, the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Windward_Islands">British colonies in the Windwards Islands</a>.<br />
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20 hectares of cocoa trees are exploited in a organic - or the trees - and fair - to the farmers - way ; the chocolate factory tries to be as sustainable and self-sufficient as possible, with sun panels and batteries for example. <a href="https://www.rococochocolates.com/pages/grococo-1">Rococo's website told</a> how this organisation helps the cooperative survived Ivan and Emily consecutive hurricanes in 2003.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cocoa pods on tree, stamp of 1966 (<a href="http://colnect.com/fr/stamps/years/country/6900-Grenade/item_name/cacao"><i>via</i> <i>Colnect.com</i></a>)</td></tr>
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Organic agriculture, fair trade with farmers and distribuotrs, sustainable energy production... But what of transportation to the continents of consumption?<br />
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Hence the out-of-design back and white sticker on the wrapper - an overprint?-, that provides a good story for chocolate shopkeepers: "A Class - Fair Transport".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The <i><a href="http://fairtransport.eu/ships/tres-hombres/">Tres Hombres</a></i> in 2013 : 32 meters, 35 tons of cargo (including Grenada chocolate bars), 5 profesional sailors, room for 10 trainees - meaning <a href="http://fairtransport.eu/sail-along/">you</a> (<a href="http://fairtransport.eu/ships/tres-hombres/">Fairtransport.eu</a>).</td></tr>
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<a href="http://fairtransport.eu/">Fairtransport</a> is a Dutch company created by three men in 2007. They have been renovating old sailing ships to put them back on the seas for a carbon free transportation of goods. Another way of thinking before reading <a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/03/week-201711-on-sebphilatelie.html">Seija-Riitta Laakso's thesis</a> on the sail against steam speed competition in the 19th century.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Map of the current Fairtransport routes accross the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea. But forget containers, <a href="http://fairtransport.eu/shipping/">loading's the old way</a>. But has every order to be done in a haste? (<a href="http://fairtransport.eu/">Fairtransport.eu</a>)</td></tr>
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The company has <a href="http://fairtransport.eu/shipbuilding/ecoliner/">a project for a modern sailing ship</a> and formed <a href="http://fairtransport.eu/ships/sail-cargo-alliance/">an alliance</a> with two other sailing shipping companies. The sticking label guarantees 90% of transportation are carbon-free: 10% being the <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2014/04/le-dernier-kilometre-avec-la-poste-et.html">usual first/last kilometer problem</a>.<br />
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Let's conclude on Grenada before the offensive on the family's Easter lamb and chocolate dessert: a very pronounced tasting chocolate, less sweet, whose raw material farmers are respected, whose industrial added value is spent in the country of origin's economy, and whose transoceanic transportation isn't polluting.<br />
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That justifies the prices at Rococo Chocolates and an Easter time thought: <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2000/08/30/george-clooney-comedien_3708207_1819218.html?xtmc=combien_de_fois_faut_il_toucher_20_millions_de_dollars_pour_etre_heureux&xtcr=4">Do we have to stuff ourselves with food to be happy?</a><br />
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<i>This article is inspired by two articles published <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/classe-ouverte-gravures-chocolatieres.html">Saturday 15</a> and <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/classe-ouverte-un-chocolat-equitable-en.html">Sunday 16 April 2017</a> on SébPhilatélie, my blog in French.</i>Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-46845836225051695592017-04-09T13:28:00.000+02:002017-04-09T13:28:37.228+02:00Week #2017.14 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/economix-ou-seduquer-avant-de-voter.html">Tuesday 4 April</a>: non philatelic important economic reading before voting.</b><br />
I'm fed up with the on going French presidential campaign... Let's read comics!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cover of the 2nd edition in French of <i>Economix</i>, published 2014 (<a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Economix-premi%C3%A8re-histoire-l%C3%A9conomie-BD/dp/2352043840/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1491327635&sr=8-1&keywords=economix">amazon.fr</a>).</td></tr>
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Its original version was published in 2013 in the United States. <i>Economix</i> is a comic book in which Michael Goodwin tries to explain the history of economics, illustrated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Burr">Dan Burr</a>.</div>
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A fine exercice of thinking and understanding our world and how politicians can disrupt as much as help make things better.<br />
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Goodwin's and Burr's task continues on <i><a href="http://economixcomix.com/">EconomixComix.com</a></i>... thank to the current leadership of the Republican Party in the U.S. When could we hope to read a British Brexit version or a French Napoleonian Right Wing one, please?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/labondant-courrier-des-citoyens-du-monde.html">Wednesday 5 April</a>: all the mail received from Citizens of the World.</b><br />
This past week, the French public radio show <i><a href="https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire">La Fabrique de l'histoire</a> </i>(The Workshop of History) on France Culture proposed four installments on aspects of globalisation, understood in all its dimensions: economic, trades, but also cultural.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Garry Davis dictating the content of a letter he received in Paris, January 1949 (<i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Actualités cinématographiques</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, 20 January 1949, </span><a href="http://www.ina.fr/video/AFE85002912" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>via </i>the 'Institut national de l'audiovisuel</a>).</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/histoire-des-mondialisations-34-cahors-mundi-une-ville-monde">On Wednesday</a>, two researchers explained how the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federalist_Movement">World Federalist Movement</a> got momentum by disrupting a session of the United Nations General Assembly in Paris in November 1948. And how much mail its spokeperson, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Davis">Garry Davis</a>, from people who wished to become "Citizens of the World", meaning wishing the establishment of an actual World State to avoid the conflicts nation-states created in the past decades.<br />
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One of the documents played is from a January 1949 newsreel for the movie theaters. In the Paris hotel where his offices were, Garry Davis is seen among the stamped envelopes of supporters for his World Citizenship idea. Stamps and envelopes everywhere, even on a panel to list the different countries of origin.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/armes-chimiques-la-thematique-guerriere.html">Friday 7 April</a>: War weapons, a growing stamp topic?</b><br />
When news are too strong for the philatelist to put them aside... An article on stamps and postal history on militarised chemical agents.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Iran issued a shocking stamp to mark the 10 years of effectivity of the Chemical Weapons Convention (<a href="http://www.stampsofiran.com/product_info.php?products_id=44"><i>via</i> a trade website in the United States</a>).<br />
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Only states who were victims or whose allies were affected by the use of these horrible weapons had issued stamps to warn their people and the world: the Kingdom of Yemen (North) during the civil war <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War#Chemical_warfare">when allegedly Egypt</a> - allied to the republicans - used gas against Yemeni civilians, Iran in support of the Iraqi Kurds after Saddam Hussein's forces <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_chemical_attack">gas bombed the village of Halabja</a>.</div>
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Even if the United Nations Postal Administration issued six stamps (two per office) in 1991 when the convention was signed, banning and ordering the destruction of these weapons, what postal administration will issue a stamp for the chemical victims of the complex Syrian civil war?</div>
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Through the excellent website by a late collector of Australia, Maurice Mishkel, <a href="http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1777.php">postal history items exist</a> as proof that all countries and powers are concerned since World War One. When <a href="http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1777.php">a "Chemical Warfare School" publicly received mail in 1946</a>...</div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/rien-narretera-leffigie-machin.html">Saturday 8 April</a>: <i>Machins</i> will rule the world forever!</b></div>
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Thank to Ian and John Billings of Norvic Philatelics (<a href="http://blog.norphil.co.uk/">blog</a>, <a href="http://www.norphil.co.uk/">site</a> and <a href="http://shop.norphil.co.uk/">shop</a>), my article tries to summarize how many new <i>Machin</i> stamps were and are to be issued in the first semester of 2017.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The first minisheet marking the 50 years of the <i>Machin</i> stamps, to be issued in June. The different picture recalls the steps of Arnold Machin's artistic thinking (Royal Mail Philatelic Bulletin <a href="http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2017/04/songbirds-take-flight-and-first-sight.html"><i>via </i>Norvic Philatelics</a>).</td></tr>
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Good luck for your wallet, <i>Machin</i> lovers.</div>
Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-44263030015628655602017-04-02T08:57:00.000+02:002017-04-02T08:57:48.080+02:00Week #2017.13 on SébPhilatélie<b>Tuesday 28 March: the many forms of decimalisation in the Commonwealth.</b><br />
From the creation of the Australian dollar philatelically <a href="http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=68489">commemorated last year</a> to a three-time reissued Cayman Islands definitive series in 1969 described by Moel Cavenhill in the February issue of <i>Gibbons Stamp Monthly</i>, many former British colonies kept the ternary monetary system until the sixties and seventies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The "C-Day" second version of Cayman Islands decimalisation series: 8th September 1969 was the day the Jamaican dollar replaced the Jamaican pound/shilling/pence (<a href="http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/246321-Grand_Cayman_Thrush_Turdus_ravidus-Type_of_1969_surcharged-Cayman_Islands"><i>via </i>colnect.com</a>).</td></tr>
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A change that didn't go smoothly if one looks "outside the scope of the catalogue" for 1961 Pakistan with the numerous local oveprints <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_displays.asp">presented by Mike J. Roberts</a> at the Royal Philatelic Society London earlier in March.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/dragon-postal-dans-le-dernier-melusine.html">Thursday 30 March</a>: postal dragon in a French comics.</b><br />
How to remind the e-generation that postal service still exist and are useful: show them in what they read.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Excerpt of the first and second page of <i style="font-size: 12.8px;">L'Année du dragon</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, last tome in the Mélusine series</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> (</span><a href="http://www.dupuis.com/melusine/bd/melusine-tome-25-l-annee-du-dragon/70713" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dupuis Editions</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">).</span></td></tr>
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On 29 March, weekly French and Belgian comics magazine <i>Spirou</i> is pre-publishing by episode the 35th tome of <i>Mélusine</i>, the stories of a young apprentice witch ; on general sale on 5 May.<br />
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In <i>L'Année du dragon </i>(<i>The Year of the Dragon</i>), all the dragons disappeared and the magical world is put to an economic stop: no more transportation of mail and packages for a start.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/04/liberte-egalite-salmonide-par-florent.html">Saturday 1 April</a>: Liberty, Equality, Salmonity.</b><br />
Not good times for pranks after many politicians' acts in 2016-2017, so let's eat the fishes instead.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A postal sushi postal of the Raw Fish Republic (<a href="http://florentchavouet.blogspot.fr/2010_01_01_archive.html">Florent Chavouet's blog</a>).</td></tr>
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From 2010 to 2012 a French illustrator created almost 200 play on words and puzzle based on sushis.<br />
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<b>Sunday 2 April: Iain Stevenson RIP.</b><br />
Sad news: one month ago, edition specialist and <a href="http://www.academiedephilatelie.fr/timbres/membre.php?rub=52&statut=4">philatelist</a> Iain Stevenson died in England. A former professional editor who became <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/iainstevenson">university teacher in 1999</a>, he was a specialist of telegraph stamps, postal stationery, North Borneo and Canada.<br />
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Stevenson has a connection with Montpellier, France where I live. He studied geography there in the 1970s, wrote on the Scots College (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_des_%C3%89cossais,_Montpellier">Collège des Écossais</a></i>) established by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes">Patrick Geddes</a> in the 1920s, and exhibited his collection of Montpellier postmarks at the French Académie de philatélie's event at the Royal Philatelic Society London last November.<br />
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The article in French gives many links to retrieve parts of his publications and exhibits. An eulogy <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/ah-news-publication/obituary-iain-stevenson">was published by the University College London</a>, followed by t<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/iain-stevenson-tributes">ributes from his colleagues, students and readers</a>.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-1986218152984291272017-03-26T22:29:00.000+02:002017-04-02T08:57:58.636+02:00Week #2017.12 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/lelection-du-plus-beau-timbre-musical.html">Friday 24 March</a>: Election of the best musical stamp of 2016.</b><br />
The <a href="http://www.motivgruppe-musik.com/en/">International Philatelic Music Study Group</a>, based in Germany, organised every year an election, opened to every one, of the best musical stamp of the previous year.<br />
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The stamps in competition <a href="http://www.motivgruppe-musik.com/en/yehudi-menuhin-trophy/schoenste-briefmarke-kandidaten/">can be watched there</a> and the participation file is <a href="http://www.motivgruppe-musik.com/en/yehudi-menuhin-trophy/schoenste-briefmarke-formular/">over here</a>. Advantages of the membership are explained <a href="http://www.motivgruppe-musik.com/en/musik-philatelie/angebot/">on this page</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">... to the public enjoying festivals on <a href="http://en.stamps.fo/ShopItem/2016/0/PMA002016/SETT">print-on-demand stamps of Faroe Islands</a>.</td></tr>
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<b>Sunday 26 March: Philatelic exhibition at the Algerian Cultural Center in Paris.</b><br />
The French and the Algerian governments seem to wish celebrating quietly, each on its side, the 55th anniversary of the 19 March 1962 ceasefire - or "victory day" for the soon to be independent Algeria.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The French commemorative stamp of March 2017: the monument displaying victims of the Algerian Civil War, Quai Branly, Paris (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Cessez_le_feu_Algerie_2017">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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France issued a discreet stamp... so discreet no politicians catched it during a hated and unpredictable presidential campaign. That is surprising because the date to mark the end of the Algerian Independence War is refused by French rapatriates and surviving harkis (the Algerian soldiers of the French army): killings still happened between the many sides of this civil war until the next November.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The 8th anniversary of the beginning of the "Algerian Revolution" - or for the French the "Bloody All Saint's Day" (Memory and History, <a href="http://eduscol.education.fr/pid23208-cid59932/ressources-pour-la-classe-terminale-des-series-es-et-l.html">a final secondary school exam subject in France</a>), is at the beginning of the exhibition proposed by the <a href="http://www.cca-paris.com/">Algerian Cultural Center</a> in Paris.</td></tr>
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On the Algerian philatelic side, apart from stamps on battles against the French colonisation since 1830, Sihem Lakhdari, Director of the postage stamp and philately of <a href="http://www.poste.dz/">Algérie Poste</a>, <a href="http://www.cca-paris.com/index.php/34-prochains-evenements/338-philatelie-2">introduced by a conference at the Algerian Cultural Center, Paris</a>, an exhibition on the philately of Algeria since 1962.<br />
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Her speech detailed the history of the first independently created stamp of the Algerian postal administration, nicknamed "1+9" because of his important donation to a benevolent cause. Issued on the 1st of November 1962, it commemorated the first general attacks against French people and interests in Algeria.<br />
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And replaced the French metropolitan stamps overprinted "E.A." for "État algérien" (Algerian State) hastily created the previous July for the declaration of independence. You can discover their story <a href="http://www.asso-philatelique-montpellier.fr/356+articles-du-bulletin-special.html">in an article by Raoul Michau and Michel Soulie</a>, dowloadable in the special issue of the journal of the <a href="http://www.asso-philatelique-montpellier.fr/">Montpellier Philatelic Association</a>, published May 2015.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-69804510961750372742017-03-19T20:57:00.001+01:002017-03-19T20:57:40.011+01:00Week #2017.11 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/journee-du-timbre-2017-le-vaudeville.html">Tuesday 14 March</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> at the French Stamp Festival.</b><br />
I had a little bit of theatrical fun with the French organised philately this week: the Federation of Associations and the Dealers Union accidentally (?) put events in competition the same week-end on the 11 and 12 March...<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/les-travaux-des-redacteurs-en-chef-du.html">Wednesday 15 March</a>: the works of <i>The London Philatelist</i> editors in chief.</b><br />
Next July the journal of the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/">Royal Philatelic Society London</a> will have a new editor: Finnish lady Seija-Riitta Laakso will succeed Steve Jarvis.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bwisc.org/People/Jarvis_Steve.html">The latter</a> is a specialist of Jamaica who launched with <a href="http://www.jamaicaphilately.info/Philatelists/Sutcliffe/Sutcliffe.html">Derek Sutcliffe</a> in the 1990s an Encyclopedia of Jamaican Philately. <a href="http://www.jamaicaphilately.info/ejp_books.html">Four volumes</a> have been published, <a href="http://www.jamaicaphilately.info/">a website</a> gathers documents and articles.<br />
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A research book by Laakso was published by the University of Helsinki in 2006: <i>Across the Oceans. Development of Overseas Business Information Transmission 1815-1875</i>, available in English <a href="http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/histo/vk/laakso/">àon the website of the University</a>. More than 300 pages putting postal history into context.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/fins-de-catalogue-lexposition-fete-du.html">Saturday 18 March</a>: end-of-catalogues at the Stamp Festival exhibition in Montpellier.</b><br />
At the first Stamp Festival back in late Winter, the <a href="http://www.asso-philatelique-montpellier.fr/">Philatelic Association of Montpellier</a> proposed a level-1 competitive exhibition and fourteen free collections.<br />
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I presented a few items that intrigued me along my way through the frames, mostly from stamps and usage found at the end of the French catalogues: fiscally used, service label, French occupation of Germany 1918-1919.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Classical view of Montpellier town center: place of the Comédie 1891, overprinted 1902 (Michel Rettgen collection, Fête du timbre, Montpellier, 11-12 March 2017).</td></tr>
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And one commercial postcard of 1890s Montpellier's central place: The Comédie, overprinted a dozen years after to mark a baloon flight in the region.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-33948955009422154322017-03-12T11:08:00.001+01:002017-03-12T11:12:59.591+01:00Week #2017.08 to .11 on SébPhilatélieMy apologies after a little - still on - overwhelmed job period doubled with the discovery of Nintendo's new title <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of Wild</a></i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The best French stamp ever!!!... Let's quiet down a bit (<i><a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Link_2005">via Phil-Ouest.com</a></i>).</td></tr>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/salade-de-fruits-franco-australo.html">Saturday 25 February</a>: a French-British-Australian salad.</b><br />
Since 2009 the Greek letter phi has been forced as the official symbol on French program stamps.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Truncated poster of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's campaign, entitled <i>Disobedient/Rebellious France</i>ffiche. In stickers and posters it can be found on many urban public and private furnitures (<a href="https://materiel.jlm2017.fr/produit/100-affiches-france-insoumise-40x60/">campaign material website</a>).</td></tr>
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Since Autumn it's the symbol of the far right politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the current presidential election in France...<br />
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On the other of the world multimillionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Fahour">CEO of the Australia Post</a> decided to leave its office... after years of philatelic and unions outrage concerning his salaries, months of failed Senate inquiries and weeks of suddenly great media attention.<br />
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<a href="http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2017/02/massive-increase-in-basic-airmail-rates.html">Presented on Norvic Philatelics blog</a> the new postal rates of Royal Mail seem to indicate the operator is following the Brexit tempo: moderate penny increase for interior mail, huge for international... Mail to Europe being the most punished: +10 pennies!<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/promotion-de-la-philatelie-letihad.html">Sunday 26 February</a>: promotion of philately at the Etihad Museum, Dubai.</b><br />
<a href="http://sebphilately.blogspot.fr/2017/02/postal-history-etihad-museums-inaugural.html">The first temporary exhibition</a> in the newly opened Etihad Museum of the United Arab Emirates history, in Dubai, is still interesting journalist.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritage/exhibition-dedicated-to-the-history-of-the-uaes-post-pushes-the-envelope#page1">On the 22 February <i>The National</i> presented</a> the activity proposed to visiting children in order for them to discover postal service and stamp creation.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/royal-mail-sonde-les-internautes-sur-le.html">Monday 27 February</a>: Royal Mail asks internauts their wish for the 2019 program.</b><br />
The British operator is proposing a survey to the public to get opinions for <a href="http://www.royalmail.com/2019/">the 2019 stamp program</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Introduction and first questio of the survey (<a href="http://www.royalmail.com/2019/">Royal Mail website</a>).</td></tr>
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The ideas are proposed into three domains ; the visitor can tick three boxes per domain. A fourth part allows to add other proposals.<br />
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Concerning philatelic philately the 150th anniversary of the <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/home.asp">Royal Philatelic Society London</a> is among the historic commemorations.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/bande-annonce-saint-pierre-et-miquelon.html">Tuesday 28 February</a>: Continental exhibition in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon next June.</b><br />
From Thursday the first to Sunday fourth of June 2017, the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon will host a continental interamerican exhibition after the successful 2014 edition.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Logotype of SPM Expo 2017 (<a href="http://spm-expo.com/">official website</a>).</td></tr>
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The website permits to read the list of the jury and watch <a href="http://spm-expo.com/recompenses-et-palmares/">the trophies offered</a> by the insitutions and national federations.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/philatelie-uchronique-avec-ss-gb-sur.html">Thursday 2 March</a>: alternate history philately on the BBC.</b><br />
Imagined in the 1940s, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-GB_(TV_series)"><i>SS-GB</i>, the alternate history serial</a> of the BBC, shows many envelopes during the policeman hero's investigations in a Britain occupied by the nazi forces... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history">if they had</a> successfully landed in 1940.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">An occupation stamp, very badly perforated, stuck on an envelope during the first episode (BBC One, Sunday 19 February 2017).</td></tr>
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Adapted from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-GB">the spy novel</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton">Len Deighton</a>, published in 1978: Douglas Archer, one of the best inspectors of Scotland Yard, is forced to make his service works, hoping for a better future, while under the scrutiny of the SS ; the dreadful organisation having begun the census of jews.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The cover of the novel already used alternate philately to strike the potential reader (<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ss-Gb-Nazi-Occupied-Britain-1941-Novel/dp/0394504097/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241339616&sr=8-14">amazon.co.uk</a>).</td></tr>
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An investigation into a murder by gun shot imposes Archer to work for a German military intelligence officer, sent in urgency by Berlin... Who was the victim? What is he so important? At the same time, London is preparing to host a visit of Soviet dignitaries: what will become of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a> in this timeline?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/carte-de-noel-de-marins-prisonniers-au.html">Sunday 5 March</a>: museums and their mail: the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool.</b><br />
Many museums exhibit postal history items because they fit the topic of the place. For exemple, this 1941 postcard in the <a href="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/boa/">Battle of the Atlantic Gallery</a> in the <a href="http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/">Merseyside Maritime Museum</a> in Liverpool, England.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The reproduced two sides of a Christmas card sent by a prisoner of war to Liverpool in December 1941.</td></tr>
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The illustration gave the place of origin: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_X-B">Stalag X-B</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen">Bremen</a>, north west Germany. The article of the <i>Wikipedia </i>in English helped discover this prison camp: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlag_und_Milag_Nord">Marlag und Milag Nord</a>.<br />
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Marlag stands for <i>Marinelager</i>, a camp for all kind of seamen, both Royal Navy captured and merchant marine civilians, hold because they could help the war effort by manning ships sailing to North America to get supplies.<br />
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But the civilians got their own camp, Milag for <i>Marineinterniertenlager</i>, after members of the United States and Switzerland's Red Cross Committees visited Marlag.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/la-philatelie-neerlandaise-en-une-carte.html">Tuesday 7 March</a>: Netherlands philately summarised on one postcard.</b><br />
Thank to philatelist <a href="https://www.postcrossing.com/">Postcrosser</a>, I received a card franked with three kinds of stamps that NL Post is proposing these past years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you Shelly!</td></tr>
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On the left side, make-up stamps in the design approach the Netherlands are famous for now. In the center the lower stamp of <a href="http://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/188867-pretty_Netherlands-Schoonhoven-Pretty_Netherlands-Netherlands">a 2006 illustrated minisheet</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonhoven">Schoonhoven</a>, a historic center of silver craftmanship.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">An inspired card printed by editor <a href="https://www.greetz.nl/home">Greetz</a>, the same as the personalised stamp on the other side of the card. Liverpool and Beatles lover will notice...</td></tr>
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Finally, on the right side, a personalised stamp promoting stamp collecting, mimicking the unused war moral poster of Britain: <i>Keep calm and collect stamps</i>.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/03/defis-de-collection-dans-les-colonies.html">Saturday 11 March</a>: French colonies' challenges to postal historians.</b><br />
Two British publications proposed ideas that could motivate collectors to search the French colonies again. First, in the January issue of <i>Gibbons Stamp Monthly</i>, Michael Round ended his stamp studies of the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (1967-1977) with the goal to find cancelled items from all five post offices of the country to become independent Djibouti, including illustrated "<i>flammes"</i> of Djibouti.<br />
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Five in a desertic rocky region: too easy?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">HMS <i>Vanadis</i> by <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_H%C3%A4gg">Jacob Hägg</a>, around 1900s (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Vanadis_(1862).jpg"><i>via</i> Commons by Wikimedia</a>).</td></tr>
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In the February issue of <i><a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/publications_london_philatelist.asp">The London Philatelist</a></i>, Staffan Ferdén studied three covers to a Swedish naval officer cancelled in Stockholm and who found him in Tahiti, in the Society Islands, during the 1883-1885 world tour of the HMS <i>Vanadis</i>.<br />
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The author is known for his classic Swedish maritime mail collection and studies (to became a book in 2019 - a summary of a recent presentation is available on the <a href="http://stockholmia2019.se/#collapseTwelve">Stockholmia 2019 exhibition website</a>: click "Read more" on the 17 December 2016 article).<br />
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Why those Tahiti cover among all mail received and sent by the crew, including <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Bernadotte">Prince Oscar Bernadotte</a>? Because Papeete was, with Egyptian Port Said at the entrance of the Suez canal, the only places where there was no Swedish consulate to take care of the mail.<br />
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The article is dense, but succeeds to give information on the cruise, the geopolitial situation of this part of Polynesia under French rule since 1880 (after a protectorate period), and all the maritime routes that existed in the 1880s in order to guess which ones the three letters had taken to find Lieutenant Fredrik Peyron.<br />
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Still looking for a challenge?<br />
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Let's try genealogy: Peyron as in <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%C3%AFck_Peyron">Loïck Peyron</a>, the French sailing champion? Is there a cousin connection is one could climb their respective trees up until <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John_of_Sweden">the first French Bernadotte King of Sweden</a>?<br />
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<b>Conclusion for the week end.</b><br />
The author of a Sower specialised blog <a href="http://semeuse.blogspot.fr/2017/03/pas-contente-la-comtesse.html">proposed yesterday</a> something surprising and a personal rendition of what may have happened to a countess living in Lorraine when she sent a <u>registered</u> postcard to a friend in Edinburgh, Scotland. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette">Étiquette</a></i>.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-67626075351624568482017-02-21T20:57:00.001+01:002017-02-21T20:59:46.024+01:00A stamp for Montpellier's own Frédéric Bazille<i>This article summarises in part articles of SébPhilatélie in French: <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-le-drame-de-la.html">the maximum cards preparation</a>, <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-un-si-philatelique.html">comments on the wonderful organisation</a>, and <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-une-autre-vue-de.html">a sort of illustrated conclusion</a>.</i><br />
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Yesterday, Monday 20 February, the French post issued an artistic stamp in honor of impressionist painter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bazille">Frédéric Bazille</a>, born 1841 in Montpellier. The chosen artwork is <i>View of village</i> of 1868.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stamp on a maximum card I made at the first day sale in Montpellier, Friday 17 February (postcard edited by the Fabre Museum, Montpellier municipal museum).</td></tr>
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Bazille was a talented painter, born in a rich trade family of Montpellier, in Southern France - a family we met already <a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2016/08/lalgerie-postale-de-1603-1851-au.html">on this blog thank to Kenneth Nilsestuen</a> with a letter between a wine trader in French conquered Algeria and the Bazille-Castelnau branch of Frédéric's family.<br />
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The family owned a domain on the outskirts of 19th century Montpellier : the domaine of Méric, where the garden overviews the small Lez river and the nearby village of Castelnau-le-Lez. On <i>Vue de village</i>, Bazille depicted the daughter of a domain's worker with the village in the background.<br />
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A high definition picture of the painting and school activities to discover it <a href="https://www.reseau-canope.fr/la-classe-loeuvre/les-projets/projet/la-vue-de-village-1868-frederic-bazille.html">are available on the <i>Réseau Canopé</i> website</a>, the French public education information service.<br />
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The sad part of the story is that Frédéric Bazille, while volunteering the army, died during the 1870 war between France and Prussia, only aged 28.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">A part-walk part-tramway route from the place of the first day sale to the Domaine of Méric, passing in front the Fabre Museum, in Montpellier (<a href="https://www.google.fr/maps?q=montpellier+google+maps&ion=1&espv=2&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.147134024,d.d2s&biw=862&bih=857&dpr=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5y8zq-5LSAhVMVhoKHVSUCg4Q_AUIBigB">Google Maps</a> modified with free software <a href="http://www.getpaint.net/">Paint.NET</a>).</td></tr>
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The first day of sale was proposed in Montpellier, in an uncommon place for the city and its federated philatelic club. The <a href="http://www.asso-philatelique-montpellier.fr/">Association philatélique de Montpellier</a> generally organised such event in a municipal hall ; the <a href="http://museefabre.montpellier3m.fr/">Fabre Museum</a> was thought too late.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The merry postal team of the Préfecture post office, the President of the Montpellier Philatelic Association (in blue) and one of the deputy mayor (<i><a href="http://www.midilibre.fr/">Midi libre</a></i>, Montpellier local edition, 18 February 2017).</td></tr>
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The sale ended in the historic main post office of the town center, near the Préfecture, the official residence of the French State administrator. I thought the place too tiny and crowded at peak let-me-get-my-registered-or-parcel hours...<br />
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... But the post office team was efficient and happy to oblige in such short notice. The postal clark specialised in philatelic matters was there with stamps and the first day datestamp ; his boss all smile with the offered coffee machine and cookies. The Association got space enough to propose René Maréchal's collection of impressionist paintings through stamps and pictorial cancellations.<br />
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Let me say that, for the past decade, despite the French post's delusional try to profitability of the philatelic sales, the Montpellier Préfecture post office has kept the status of an actual philatelic post office whereas the philatelic subscription were centralised on order by Phil@poste and that post offices were forced to time the seconds spent by each employee with clients... Letting some post offices with the idea that philatelic consumers were a waste of time!<br />
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Montpellier Préfecture never surrendered and is proven right: for the past year and a half, Phil@poste and the Post Office Direction are reintroducing philatelic counters in chosen post offices!!!<br />
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This improvised first day of sale is a wonderful gift for a wonderful philatelic friendly team.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For amateurs of how baby are mad... stamps are printed: the right part half sheet of the Bazille stamp, with all colour verification dots and the marginal identifications.</td></tr>
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A question remained: why a stamp for Bazille now?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Rose Dress</i>, 1864, shows a cousin watching the same village accross the small river (postcard edited by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris).</td></tr>
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Because Frédéric Bazille has got an international exhibition on the run: <i>Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of of impressionism</i> was inaugurated in the Fabre Museum during the Summer 2016, <a href="http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/evenements/expositions/au-musee-dorsay/presentation-generale/article/frederic-bazille-44076.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=254&cHash=24ad46a629">is currently finishing in Musée d'Orsay, Paris</a>, before cruising to <a href="http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2017/frederic-bazille-and-the-birth-of-impressionism.html">the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.</a> from April 9<sup>th</sup> to July 9<sup>th</sup>.<br />
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Enjoy!Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-5218551779849982322017-02-19T08:54:00.001+01:002017-02-19T14:52:40.634+01:00Week #2017.07 on SébPhilatélieThe main event this past week in Montpellier is the first day of sale of a stamp in the artistic series: a painting <i>View of the Village</i> by Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870), a talended impresionist born in a trade family of the city.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Frédéric Bazille stamp (<a href="http://www.phil-ouest.com/Timbre.php?Nom_timbre=Bazille_2017"><i>via</i> <i>Phil-ouest.com</i></a>).</td></tr>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/quelques-patients-du-comite-dexpertise.html">Sunday 12 February</a>: Some "patients" of the RPSL Expert Committee.</b><br />
On 9 February <a href="http://www.rpsl.org.uk/events_displays.asp">the conference at the Royal Philatelic Society London</a> was a presentation of some false stamps and fraudulent alteration of stamps and letters by Chris Harman, Chairman of the RPSL Expert Committee.<br />
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The group of volunteering specialists assure collectors and dealers that the items are what they are thought to be. And, listening to Chris Harman, some frauders are very ressourceful: the most striking example to me was a 1847 U.S. letter whose stamp and cancels looked genuine (and quite valuable) until it was proven that the year in the correspondence was tampereed (from "1841") in order to hide the perforated stamp was added much later.<br />
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But the exhibit and the conference present a large range of problems to be aware of, from classics to modern, and from Britain to contemporary China.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/recommande-international-contre.html">Monday 13 February</a>: Shouldn't an international registered letter be signed for?</b><br />
A little day to day mystery: why didn't I have to sign for a registered letter from French Polynesia? Are the French postal employee so smartly equipped that the view of the postman's notice and your identity card is sufficient?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Service letter from the <a href="http://www.tahitiphilatelie.com/">French Polynesia Philatelic Service</a> postmarked 19 January 2017 that is an (discreet) international registered letter.</td></tr>
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By Friday I know: I had to sign the postal clerck's smartphone for a registered package from the United Kingdom.<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-le-drame-de-la.html">Wednesday 15 February</a>: The location of the stamp, the maximum card creator's problem.</b><br />
Preparing for the first day of sale of the Bazille stamp, I bought postage card of the painting at the Museum Fabre shop... but on Friday where should I put the stamp without spoiling the picture?<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/premier-jour-bazille-un-si-philatelique.html">Friday 17 February</a>: A first day of sale in a so philatelic post office.</b><br />
A summary of the discovery of the Bazille stamp, made enjoyable by the crew of <a href="https://www.google.fr/maps?q=montpellier+poste+pr%C3%A9fecture&ion=1&espv=2&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.147448319,d.d24&biw=873&bih=857&dpr=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRmvze-ZfSAhWJbhQKHVeVAMIQ_AUIBigB">Montpellier Préfecture post office</a>.<br />
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The historic town center post office had continued to provide philatelic service at the counter despite the atmosphere of service productivity of the last decade: the Post Office Direction wanted the shortest period for a clerck to serve a consumer while the Stamp Post Office (Phil@poste) wished to deliver the philatelic subscription by mail... Let's say the traditional clientele of collectors haven't been happy ever since.<br />
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But in Montpellier Préfecture, the two philatelic clerks were added to the workforce of the main office with a little trick: whenever a customer for stamps appears, he is served immediately by the philatelic clerk on duty... without disturbing neither general service nor time and money profitability it would seem. In fact philatelic counters are reappearing... by order from the top.<br />
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This first day of sale inside this post office is a victory of service to collectors. Thank you, postmen!<br />
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/le-programme-algerien-de-2017-vers-un.html">Sunday 19 February</a>: Algeria's 2017 philatelic program commented in <i>El Watan</i>.</b><br />
The Algerian newspaper <i><a href="http://www.elwatan.com/">El Watan</a></i> continued to print a weekly chronicle on philately, both new issues and thematic of Algeria. To be found every Thursday with the help of <a href="http://www.elwatan.com/hebdo/magazine/">the weekly column menu</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Émis le neuf février, ce timbre célèbre l'anniversaire de la reconnaissance du <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_berb%C3%A8res">tamazight</a>, les langues berbères, comme langue officielle en Algérie (<a href="http://www.poste.dz/philately/s/1249">Algérie Poste</a>).</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.elwatan.com/hebdo/magazine/un-reveil-historique-et-des-hommages-inedits-16-02-2017-339371_265.php">The last article by Arslan Selmane</a>, on 16 February, announced the main issues of the stamp programme for 2017, in the critical way the chronicle is always.<br />
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But this year there are good points and a lot of hope: 2 singer women to be honored, military battles of the Algerian history, touristic views, return of minisheets,...<br />
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On my side of the Mediterranean, in the middle of a very strange and nervous presidential campaign (we Frogs are now debating the good and bad points of colonisation when one of our candidate visit Algiers), I wonder how the Battles stamps will be received by part of the French public... But the French post issuing a 55th anniversary of the ceasefire in Algeria next month, I think the trouble will stay among French people.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-84551831052667080802017-02-12T20:56:00.000+01:002017-02-12T20:56:07.687+01:00Week #2017.06 on SébPhilatélie<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/un-nouveau-bureau-de-poste-dans-le.html">Sunday 5 February</a>: A new post office in Liverpool town center.</b><br />
During my yearly trip to the city of the Beatles and former port of the Empire, I saw that a new post office, privately own it seems, is to open on the groundfloor of the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis's">Lewis store</a> building, near Lime Street and Central Stations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The windows of the future Central Village post office (and coffee shop) on Renshaw Street late January 2017 (picture under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/fr/" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Creative Commons licence by-nc-nd 3.0 fr</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">).</span></td></tr>
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The article summarizes the current post offices I know in this area.<div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/tauromachie-lettre-verte-et-coupe-papier.html">Monday 6 February</a>: Criminal letters sent to bullfighting lovers.</b></div>
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In local news around Montpellier, forty or so bullfighters or bullfighting associations officers received postal stationery trapped with razor blade hidden in the adhesive flap. At least one man was deeply wounded to a finger.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">An example of a letter received by an association in Béziers and cancelled on Wednesday 1st: a green letter stationery whose Datamatric code was hidden with a green letter Marianne (<i><a href="http://www.midilibre.fr/2017/02/04/beziers-le-cercle-taurin-recoit-une-lettre-piegee,1462713.php">Midi libre</a></i>).</td></tr>
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Back in 2006 another stream of such letters were sent to bullfighting associations from Nîmes, Gard. The coded cancellations on the 2017 envelopes are from the same département.</div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/tea-for-puppets-une-webradio.html">Tuesday 7 February</a>: <i>Tea With Puppets</i>, coffee with Canadian stamps.</b></div>
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Since last October a new postcast was launched on many on-demand platforms, and included a blog: <i><a href="http://notes.teawithpuppets.com/">Tea With Puppets</a></i> with an interest on new issues of Canada and, for now, one on former issues.</div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/des-tragedies-humaines-la-beaute-de-la.html">Friday 10 February</a>: From human tragedies to natural history: stamps and the academics.</b></div>
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Last Autumn two French historians, Alain Croix and Didier Guywarc'h, <a href="http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=4214">published at the the University of Rennes</a> Press a book on how stamp issues reflects the memory of the two World Wars.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The cover (<a href="http://www.gibertjoseph.com/timbres-en-guerre-les-memoires-des-deux-conflits-mondiaux-7729511.html">Gibert Joseph</a> bookshop).</td></tr>
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<i>Timbres en guerre</i> is a very interesting read from the semi-postal and war tax stamps of 1914 to the flow of commemorative issues, well after the events. The authors wonders how the governments' motivation evolved along the way, what the public may have understood of the stamps... and, when the knowledge was available, if the face value and printing numbers show if the stamps were to be seen by the nationals.</div>
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Of course symbolism or realism are part of the problem, including what the public wished to see (comparison between the fiftieth anniversary of World War 2 issues of the U.S. and of the Marshall Islands).The topic appears many times concerning the crimes of war and the Holocaust: interesting to discover how Eastern European countries managed their philately.</div>
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A must-read for philatelist and muggles alike.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">David Lank explaining how the background of a stamp is important: is it a temporary weather or the climate the species knew? (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0Rp872BcM"><i>youTube</i></a>).</td></tr>
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But, you may already have lost faith in mankind with these past and the recent events. Turn to nature!</div>
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Professor David Lank donated his topical stamp collection of natural history to the <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/library/">McGill University Library</a>, Montréal, Québec. In English he proposed a speech at the inauguration of <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/library/channels/event/exhibition-every-stamp-story-264110">an exhibition of part of this collection</a>, on Thursday 12 January (to see until May 14th).</div>
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It is amazing to listen how he introduced the slow growth of the postal system to his public, while displaying both beautiful and colorful stamps and depiction of animals in postal history.</div>
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A must-see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0Rp872BcM">on <i>youTube</i></a>.</div>
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<b><a href="http://sebphilatelie.blogspot.fr/2017/02/disparition-du-prolifique-ted-proud.html">Saturday 11 February</a>: Prolific postal historian Ted Proud passed away.</b></div>
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Monday 6 February Ted Proud (1930-2017) disappeared. He was an important postal history dealer from 1961 to 1987 with his Proud Bailey Company.</div>
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But he will be remember for the many books he published on the postal history of British colonies and military forces: a treasure of documents, lists of rates and post offices, some maps that help the postal collector to discover the territory he wishes to enter before going into more specialised works.</div>
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Let's hope that the <a href="http://internationalpostalmuseum.com/"><i>International Postal Museum</i> website</a>, where one can access all his books for a small donation, would be continued.</div>
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He was rightfully invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2008.</div>
Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609588776845021532.post-37926126137361702512017-02-04T09:25:00.001+01:002017-02-04T09:25:19.198+01:00Postal history: Etihad Museum's inaugural exhibitionSaturday January 7th 2017 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etihad_Museum">Etihad Museum</a> opened in Dubai, a national museum on the history of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> before and after their unification in 1971.<br />
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Managed by Dubai's Culture Authority, its contemporain architectural building is a neighbour of the one where six emirates signed their union (the seventh joined the next year) putting an end to the British protectorate.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Visit the postal exhibit and zoom in the introductory text in English and Arab <a href="http://dubai360.com/#!s=4451-153-etihad-museum-postal-history-exhibition-entrance&l=ar">thank to Dubai360.com</a>. Many items can be seen by wandering the room: click on the green marks (beware: flying inside the pictures with a computer mouse is ultra-sensitive. Airsickness in view).</td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.albawaba.com/business/pr/etihad-museum-hosts-uae-postal-history-exhibition-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%98emirates-world%E2%80%99-930722">The first temporary exhibition until April 30th</a> is the postal history of the emirates and their first stamps from 1909 mail to the 1971 independence.<br />
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A beautiful achievement for Abdullah Koory, President of the <a href="http://www.epa.ae/">Emirates Philatelic Association</a>, created 1996, who <a href="http://www.mediaoffice.ae/en/media-center/news/28/1/2017/dubai-culture.aspx">is sharing his impressive collection</a>.Sébastienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674101477168730912noreply@blogger.com0