"Cour des comptes" saga returns at 16.20 euros

The "Cour des comptes 1807-2007" French stamp saga continues !

As out-of-joy-to-prove-her-connections-to-the-post-ly announced by the editor-in-chief of l'Écho de la timbrologie, an adhesive version of the stamp will be issued next 30 July 2007. But, as Dominique remarks,with a different perforation than the personalised stamp that began the saga...

Moreover, you have to buy the full sheet of thirty adhesive stamps : 16.20 €.

Since I am coming back from family holidays in a very touristic regions, pictures of pigeons are suddenly appearing in my mind... :)

Cour des comptes' Saga : advantage philatelists

In the journey to knowledge about the untellable story of the Bicentenary of the French Cour des comptes stamp personalized with a label for the twenty-fifth birthday of the Chambres régionales des comptes, they may be finally have the decisive point : philatelists, their personal webpages and blogs :
* the Blog philatélie,
* quoting philatélistes.net.

Two good philatelic amateur ressources in France.

But, the tradition told by Dominique (a label made one stamp be considered different from the other) seems to start the problem again. I think you are reading the French philatelic saga of the year... but Claude Jamet thinks it may be a sequel-in-production with the TGV in the heroic role.

More seriouly, in the French philatelic magazines of last May, you can read about two new stamps issued in Wallis et Futuna. They pictured two newly considered fish species, discovered in local coral. How much time will I wait until a philatelist (postman, journalist or collector) teach me more of this fauna ? (more than for the number of personalised stamps above, I fear)

The saga of the Cour des comptes : the magazine's war

Yesterday friday, is issued l'Écho de la timbrologie magazine whose chief-editor announces that the self-adhesive version of the Bicentenary of the Cour des comptes stamp will be sold in July by Phil@poste, and she proudly concludes : "One no more time, no hurry needed. And an excellent reason to read L'Écho de la timbrologie..."

Today saturday, it's the turn to Timbres magazine to appear. It announces that the Cour des comptes (that bought and sell the self-adhesive stamp in the first place) has some stamps left with the personalized label for the 25th birthday of the Chambres régionales des comptes (the reason every one wants to hurry). You have the right to purchase one stamp and label at one euro and write at the adress of one of the Cour des comptes' employee (see Sebphilatélie in French).

Since the hurry problem around this self-adhesive stamp seems to me not the problem of having it, but that collectors wanted it with the personalized label, I think that l'Écho should find another way to tease readers than using its relations with Phil@poste that has now the habit to issue this self-adhesive stamps producted at the demand of firms some months after gummed ones.

In order to watch for an accusation of me having favorite, here is a problem in Timbres magazine : they interviewed Yves Tardy, president of the French Philatelic associations' federation, one month to soon. He was asked about the projects of the FFAP and he answered : "I can't say anything before the board [of the FFAP] has been told" about these projects. More interesting is so the advertisment on page 25 for a book by Guy Prugnon : Taxes et modalités de taxation de la lettre ordinaire dans le régime général international (1876/1975), issued by Timbropresse editions. The author explained in the May issue of Timbres magazine that he tried to summarize the change in the way of calculating and showing that postage were due, on French letter to foreign countries between 1876 and 1975.

New episode of the French personalized Cour des comptes stamp saga

Next épisode of the saga telling the story of self-adhesive "Cour des comptes 1807-2007" stamp se-tenant with personalized label for the 20 years of the Regional Chambers of the same French institution. Last episode résumé : can you receive a cover with this stamp by simply writing normal letter to these Chambers ?

Answer : apparently, some may have more luck in Aquitaine than an other in Languedoc.

Where do you find these personalized stamps ?

Late March 2007, Dominique announced an auction on eBay : one sheet of personalized stamps. The main stamp was the commemorative "Bicentenary of the Cour des comptes" (Court of Financial Auditors) attached to personalized label for the 20th anniversary of the Regional Chambers of Financial Auditors.

This wednesday afternoon, the beginning price on 2 auctions is set at 280 euros and 400 euros the sheet of these stamps (5,40 euros of actual postal value), that are normally for the Regional Chambers mail use...

Since I am not a speculator (but I'm thinking...), I simply wrote to the Regional Chamber of Languedoc-Roussillon and asked for some advice regarding its activities. And I received this enveloppe franked by a franking machine.

Did my letter arrive after the stock of personalized stamp was exhausted ?
Did this Chamber have these stamps ?
Might I have written specifically to have these stamps ?
What are the conditions the employees received to use them ? (And were they authorized to give them to an eBay seller ?)
Worse : are the Regional Chambers the ones that made this stamps be printed by the postal printer (Phil@poste Boulazac) ?

French philately nowadays : enough questions to write a book.