Monday, February 6, 2023

French cancels - 01 c Paris numbered stars (étoiles chiffrées) - 1 to 10

In this post, I would like to present all of the different star cancels.

see also : https://rainbowstampsandcoins.blogspot.com/2023/02/french-cancels-01-b-paris-numbered.html

nr 1:
Place de la Bourse (July 1863 till end of March 1876)

étoile chiffrée 1
nr 2:
Rue St Lazare (July 1863 till October 1872)
Rue Milton (November1872 till end of March 1876)

étoile chiffrée 2
nr 3:
Pl. de la Madeleine (July 1863 till end of March 1876)

étoile chiffrée 3
nr 4:
Rue d'Enghien (July1863 till end of March 1876)

For this cancel, not only 'star 4' was used, but also 'star 24'.
However, the '2' of the '24' was omitted, and resulted in a deformed spot where the 2 used to be.

étoile chiffrée 4

nr 5:
Boulevart St Martin (July 1863 till July 1865)
Rue de Bondy (August 1865 till September 1872)
Boulevart Magenta (September 1872 till end of March 1876)

étoile chiffrée 5
nr 6:
Sénat (July 1863 till 1871)
Palais du Luxembourg (1871 till end of March 1876) 

To see the diffence with the '9' star, several types of markings underneath the 6 were used. (see later posts)

nr 7:
Rue des Vlles-Haudtes (July 1863 till end of March 1876)

Two variations on the size of the '7' - normally 6.5 mm (var 1: 5.5 mm - var 2: 5 mm)

pair of étoiles chiffrées 7
nr 8:
Rue D'Antain (July 1863 till end of March 1876)

nr 9:
Rue du Faubourg-St-Honoré (July 1863 till May 1867)
R. Montaigne (June 1867 till end of March 1876)

Similar to the '6' start, serveral types of markings underneath the 9 were used, to see the difference with the '6' cancel (see later posts)

nr 10:
Petite Rue du Bac (July 1863 till 1865)
R. du Cherche-Midi (1865 till end of March 1876)

From nr 10 on, the cancels have two dots (in stead of 3 only left and right of the number, on the central horizontal line, due to the size of the central 2-digit number.

Since some post offices changed location, but remaining to use the same star number,
only letters with star cancel and date cancel can give exclusion of where and when the cancel was used.

to be continued ...

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