Since 1903, the least we can say is that such stamps were widely collected Sower and often very well studied by many large collectors.
Many extensive studies have been published, and catalogs were gradually identified almost everything can be found as types, presentations or varieties.
Almost everything ... The discoveries
are therefore increasingly exceptional. Here
yet one, and as beautiful as they say in Marseille! or Marseillan!
One area remained however, and until recently relatively unknown, that of door-stamps, these little vignettes, often advertising, which bore many stamps in current use, including our dear Seeders.
The recent publication (with the latest catalog Yvert and Tellier) a booklet listing them finally properly, should give them a renewed popularity in the eyes of collectors. Indeed, these door-stamps illustrate perfectly a thematic collection, and reflect a time when the sower reigns on mail ...
However, from this same year 1906, some companies have had the ingenious idea to overtake on this point by being the cutest books make advertising deals from 6-stamps using the stamps to the domestic tariff 10 cents.
The model for these books is always a triptych pink cardstock, stamps containing 6-door, sometimes in several colors, and always beautifully illustrated. The blankets were numbered, and sometimes identified by letters.
They were manufactured by a company Parisienne: "The stamp is economic." The Post even tried to ban them because of the discount received on the sale of stamps!
You can all admire at leisure in the beautiful book on the books of our friends and Coutan Patrick Lucien Reynaud, published by Yvert. Well, almost all I should say ...
These four companies:
La Belle Jardiniere - The Mantle Hella - A Cute - The Peasant's Tea.
Thus we know that there are many door-stamps and rare books through our own, with the 10 v. Sower red line (YT 129), then with the 10 v. lean red Sower (YT 135 ), then with the 10 v. red cameo Sower (YT 137 ).
These books have had a very great success, probably due to the reduction that these companies offered their customers by selling 50 or 55 cents, instead of the 60 c. that the stamps represented!
They have therefore been widely used for postage, but it is not mean that fans find them easily on the mail then more than 100 years later: they are always well attended, and even books are very rare!
One book The Peasant's Tea is known to date! Plan a budget
few thousand euros if you take a look ...
But here it is the reason for this small section, and also the justification of its title:
We had the chance to discover (and buy at the same time) one of those rare books touting the benefits of wine Mignon appetizer.
To our great joy, its door-stamps this time bearing the 10 c. red Sower with soil (134 YT)! This book was never listed until now!
This stamp is therefore interposed logically and chronologically between 129 and 135 that we already knew, like 138 for this company Marseillan.
It is however the signing of which was a great collector of friends, but in an era where the Internet does not allow the dissemination of information as today, and where books door-stamps were less well known : we saw even be sold in public auctions, which is unfortunately no longer the case too ...
By looking carefully, in retrospect, to fans of these vignettes, we see that famous No. 134 had already been seen on doors stamps one of these companies (Hella in this case, as in the two photos following), but at least not with wine Mignon, and especially not in the book!
That means you'll understand that he should perhaps still exist somewhere a book of stamps Hella holders (red or blue?) With 134 as stamp and you have to discover it before us!
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Thank you notify us if you have, or if you have already seen,
one of those 134 on a carrier stamp Darling: We're sold.
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