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| ABOVE: Spanish non-postal labels of
1945 provided the inspiration for six
impref stamps (left) issued on July 16,
1966 for the restaurant |
The final set we illustrate is based on the Spanish non-postal labels of 1945, depicting an aero-plane flying over a dessert. This set of six imperf stamps was issued on July 16, 1966 - 500 sets are stated to have been printed. As with so many 'local stamps', varieties were manufac-tured to demand. We illustrate a used example of one of the Europa stamps issued on September 25, 1965. The date of issue is established from the can-celler - only one date was used for each issue, the first day. The set came in six colours, perf and imperf, with 150 of each issued.
We have indicated the number of stamps issued for each set, but have no idea how accurate this is.
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| ABOVE: Used example of the Europe stamp
issued on September 25, 1965 |
Bourdi must have got some infor-mation from Mr. Vion at the same time as he purchased stocks of the stamps. We agree that numbers are likely to be small as the stamps aren't easily acquired. We would suggest that Vion printed them for fun, rather than to satisfy a col-lector demand. Following the clo-sure of the restaurant, no more stamps were officially issued. However, a certain number of var-ious issues did come on the mar-ket at that time, but in different colours than the stamps issued. These stamps are always found overprinted with the letters 'PPC' (Pour Prendre Conge), in various types of overprints and different colours. They should be consid-ered as bogus stamps made of bogus stamps! |
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| ABOVE: Other examples
of the Europe stamp with
centre inverted and with
black centre missing |
As a postscript to 'The Mystery Stamp', STAMP MAGAZINE (September 2002, page 48) we received a letter from Miss M. Pointing, Taunton, correcting an error. She pointed out that Prince Albert Victor was the Duke of Clarence and not the Duke of Edinburgh, and she is correct. Accordingly, Prince Albert Victor wasn't founder of the Royal Philatelic Collection, as he was the elder brother of King George V (born January 8, 1864; died January 12, 1892 of pneumonia). He was sent to Dartmouth as a Naval Cadet in 1877, and, in 1879, he undertook a first tour with the Navy of the West Indies.
In 1881, he undertook a tour of Australia where he made the first pull from the Fiji die for the 1881 1 s. We checked with Michael Sefi, Deputy Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection, and he con-firmed that the Die Proof is in the collection. Prince Albert Victor was devoted to his brother Prince George (later King George V) and it has to be assumed that either he gave the Die Proof to Prince George on his return from Australia, or left his collection to him. It is sad that he died the day before he was due to marry Mary of Teck, but he was considered to be panerotic; speculated to be Jack the Ripper; and suspicions cast to having been poisoned. |
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