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Links related to French postal history and marcophilie

• Guy Maggay - Oblitérations sur les timbres classiques de France -- a complete and thoroughly written listing of all main postmark types used in France from the beginnings up to 1900; this includes postal marks from the begining to1830, date postmarks, cancellations from Paris and from the Provinces as well as railway post offices; the perfect starting point for somebody who is interested in marcophilie
• La Marcophilie Française -- Histoire abrégée de la Poste et des Marques Postales françaises 1635 - 1849
• Tarifs postaux de 1792 à 1849 -- the prephilatelic tariffs are listed in detail and are proved by letters, under construction
• Tarifs Postaux des cartes postales envoyées de France à destination de la France -- postcard tariffs 1873 - 1990
• Society Val de Durance - histoire postale française -- letters franked with the 20 c. Cérès black posted in January 1849, "La poste jadis", and different other articles and collections
• Marcophilie des departments Basses Pyrénées et Pyrénées Atlantiques
• Histoire postale du Var -- a very well done link dedicated to the marcophilie and prephilately of the Department Var
• Marcophilie de la ville de Dunkerque 1700 - 1900 -- a very nice page describing the postmarks used there
• Histoire postale de Lens 1625 - 1850 -- Historical background, marques postales, timbres à date, poste rurale, the first stamps; well done, under construction
• Bureaux français de l'empire ottoman (Oblitérations sur timbres français, 1854 - 1902) -- a fantastic page depicting all French post offices in the ottoman empire with all stamps and all postmarks used there; included are statistics which give a feeling for the rarity of certain offices, or stamps and postmarks used in certain offices
• Ballons montés and boules de moulins -- this link joins scans from these items
• Flammes postales
• Marcophilie navale -- presents modern aspects of maritime postal history
• Use of type Sage stamps -- a very nice page showing their use with different postmarks on them, or aside (les recettes, les facteurs boîtiers, les essais), on precursor postcard, within different tariffs, delivery problems (faux direction, retour à l'envoyeur, nauffrage de la Russie...) and so on; a great collection of Sage postal history items
• Étude de la Carte Postale en France avant juin 1878 -- les cartes precurseurs 1873 - 1878, a thorough study
• French free postage military postcards and postmarks 1914 - 1918 -- Les cartes en franchise militaire
• Postal stationary of the French colonies
• Les enveloppes et cartes postales Prêt-à-poster (PAP) -- this page lists all PAPs issued until today
• Les Prêts-à-Poster -- another link which describes in great detail the PAPs.
• Censored mail -- this page is dedicated to censored letters worldwide

• Dictionnaire philatélique -- a voluminous list of French philatelic terms, partially with English and German translations
• A detailed map is of great help for people interested in postal history. A good possibility is for example Mapquest.
• Currencies and weights -- this page lists the different currencies of the classical period in their exchange relation to the French centime
• Signatures -- the signatures of the experts and examinators dealing with French philately and postal history can be found at this link
• The Pothion indices -- they give a value of a certain postmark reflecting its rarity
• Union postale universelle -- the page of the UPU gives you informations about the newer postal treaties, but is lacking informations about the old times.
• Preservation and care of philatelic materials -- This page gives helpful hints.
• The perpetual calendar -- On this page you can find everything about calendars from all times and all regions - fantastic.
• Weekday converter -- People studying postal history material often like to know on what weekday a letter was cancelled. Here you can calculate it.
• Another weekday converter -- in German

Links related to French philately

• Guy Maggay - Les timbres classiques de France -- scans of the first 100 French stamps; in addition the timbres-taxe up to 1900 and the stamps of the general colonies issues are partially shown; the corresponding pages contain a wealth of information about first issue dates, number of stamps issued and catalogue prices - fantastic pages
• The classical French stamps -- superior copies from the first 100 stamps were scanned
• Scans -- from the classical stamps as well as modern material
• Stamps and historical events -- it links the dates of issue for the stamps between 1849 and 1921 to the corresponding historical events
• 10c Empire non dentelé -- N° 13 Yvert et Tellier, les types, les oblitérations, les destinations, les piquages, very nice page dedicated to this issue
• 20c Empire non dentelé -- N° 14 Yvert et Tellier
• Les Aigles -- the first issue produced only for the French colonies 1859 - 1871
• Type Sage -- the different issues between 1876 and 1900, the different types, details of the printing and printing errors
• Histoire de Groupes -- le timbre des colonies françaises de 1892
• Type Merson -- dedicated to this issue, its use in France and abroad, overprints, special use; it goes really into the details and contains additional informations about Luc-Olivier Merson itself
• Type Semeuse -- Nice page dedicated to the sawer issue
• Les Semeuses -- collection de timbres de France sur les semeuses, camée, lignée, surcharge, préoblitéré
• Le 1f50 brun PETAIN Type Bersier -- N° 517
• La "Série Coloniale" au Type Maréchal Pétain
• The French Marianne Issues -- this page assembles all Marianne stamps issued in France from 1944 until today (types Fernez, Dulac Gandon, Müller, Piel, Decaris, Cocteau, Cheffer, Béquet, Briat, Luquet)
• Marianne de Gandon 1945 - 1947 -- this page includes besides information about this issue additional information about French philately
• La Marianne de Gandon -- scans from the stamps of this issue
• Le 2,20 F Liberté de Gandon -- genesis, the different types, fabrication, and use
• French non-value issues -- this page describes in great detail the stamps and postal stationary d'usage courant (types Liberté de Gandon and Marianne de Briat) which were issued between 1984- 1991 without a denomination; they are used for standardized mail (notes A-D)
• Les Timbres à Validité Permanente (dits TVP) -- Stamps without any notes of its value (types Mariannes de Briat and Luquet)
• Philatélie des îles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
• Philately and postal history of the New Hebrides -- A webpage showing the complete history from prephilately to 1957; British and French issues
• Terre Adelie -- Ce site comprend divers chapitres consacrés à l'histoire postale de la Terre Adélie
• La Poste de l'Ouest de la France -- stamp issues related in any way to the western part of France
• Variétés de piquage
• Philatelic service of the French post
• Actual issues of the French postal services
• Official page of the French postal administration -- tarifs, codes posteaux, boutique philatélique
• Phildex - cross-checking service for Scott, Stanley Gibbons and Yvert & Tellier catalogue numbers

Link collections related to French philately and postal history sites

• Yahoo.fr - Philatélie

• Excite.fr - Philatélie

• Nomade - Philatélie

Newsgroups

• fr.rec.philatelie -- a French group
• rec.collecting.postal-history -- US dominated, few Europeans

Links related primarily to postal history outside France

• European postal history around 1860 -- a great site showing letters of the 19th century to France from all over Europe
• Austrian postal history - a page summarizing information about literature, links, addresses and stamp shows
• Postal History of Belgium -- a link related to the tariffs of Belgium during the use of the 1869 issue
• Danish postal history - a wealth of information
• Postal history and stamps from Finland - classical issues and Russian time up to 1918, postmarks, tariffs, and literature
• Postal history of the Russian Empire - a well done page dedicated to the postal history and marcophilie of the pre-Soviet period of Russia
• Russian postal history - a page summarizing information about literature, links, addresses and stamp shows
• Spanish Postal History - the issues during the reign of Alfonso XIII 1889 - 1932
• Czech postal history - postmarks, tariffs, field post, links from 1900 until nowadays
• Romanian postal history - articles, monographs, literature, societies, links up to 1945
• Postal history of Egypt - a page summarizing information about literature, links and addresses
• The Bahamas postage stamps and postal history - literature, postmarks, rates
• The stamps and postal history of British New Guinea and Papua - a list of the stamps and their use
• The stamps and postal history of the New Hebrides - a very detailed and thorough study

It would be fine to have here a larger list of webpages dedicated to the different aspects postal history and marcophilie of different countries. It is always fine to have a starting point if one gets items from other countries than France. If you know links, please tell me.

Important links for philately worldwide

• Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web
• Francis Chan's Stamp Resources
• Stamp collecting by Peter G. Aitken
• Europeanstamps.com

• StampSites.com - a search machine specialized on philately and postal history

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