Book of stamps

A book of stamps is one in the ways of conditioning the postage stamps to sell them. A block of stamps is fixed on a cover of paper or paperboard; the block is generally composed of ten stamps in a Rectangle of five stamps in length and two in height.

The Gomme of the stamps being protected by the cover, the users are less likely to see the stamps adhered accidentally on supports that if they had bought a piece of sheet.

History

The first notebooks appeared at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the XXe to satisfy managed requiring round numbers of stamps (10 generally). The first countries in which the postal administrations made notebooks were:

However, the majority of these postal administrations of the time made pay the clothes industry; the notebook was one more expensive than the facial value of its stamps. In the finance law of April 17th, 1906, the French Parliament authorizes the stations to sell notebooks for 2 francs of facial value plus 5 centimes for the expenses of clothes industry. These first notebooks were thus been sulky by the public. The surplus is quickly abandoned, as of on May 1st, 1910 in France.

Quickly, the Publicity printed on the covers and the edges of sheet of the block made it possible to sell the notebooks with the price of facial, and caused the collection of the advertizing notebooks.

Currently, the notebooks of stamps of everyday usage have the favor of the stations because they are easier of handling than the sheets of one hundred stamps. Then, the goal of the customers being to have a means easy always to have stamps at disposal, in fact often stamps of notebook were the first self-adhesive stamps.

The stamps commemorative profit also punctually from conditioning in notebooks for series on a topic (the Oiseau X in Finland) or the stamps of benevolence (in France, the Journée of the stamp, the large characters, the stamp Croix-Rouge). In certain Anglo-Saxon countries, the collectors can get “notebook of prestige”, more expensive than a normal notebook, but commemorating a particular event (recently, with the the United States for the homage to the national flag).

The revenue stamps also, gave place to the emission of notebooks. It was thus, in France, for two receipt stamps and a general revenue stamp, but they did not have any success near the users, from where them scarcity. In addition, with regard to the revenue stamps intended for the refugees and stateless people, several of them were emitted only in notebooks, which did not prevent these notebooks from becoming very rare, their very high facial value having resulted in splitting them at the time of the sale of their figurines.

Interest

The philatelists were interested in the books of stamps rather early:
  • the collectors sets of themes found in publicities printed on the notebooks what to supplement their collection.
  • those practitioner the monograph of a stamp of everyday usage seek to know if there are differences between the stamp of sheet and the stamp of notebook. Knowing that the commemorative ones in notebook present also differences of Dentelure of with the stamps of sheet.

The notebooks are also the occasion to meet appreciated visual effects of the collectors:

First stamps in notebook

France

The first two notebooks of postage stamps are emitted in 1906, and their virgin cover of publicity is overloaded new commercial value of 2 francs in 1910.
  • 40 stamps with 5 centimes with the Type White, sold 2,05 francs in 1906
  • 20 stamps with 10 centimes red with the type Semeuse cameo, sold 2,05 francs in 1906.

The first two tax books of stamps were emitted in 1915, and their cover also is virgin of publicity. They contain, one 20 specimens and the other 50 specimens of the horizontal stamp of 10c of Receipts to the type “Medallion of Tasset”.
They were preceded by 2 notebooks of 20 specimens of the vertical stamp 10c of receipts of 1891 with the type “Medallion of Tasset”, which were not emitted. Tax the Yvert catalog the date of 1915, but it could be well that they are former. These two notebooks are known only with all their overloaded stamps “Test”. One of them is composed of 5 blocks of 4 and the other of 2 blocks of 10. One knows also a test of the first of these notebooks, with 5 not notched blocks of 4.

Sources

  • Lucien Coutan and Patrick Reynaud, Notebooks of France , volume 1 (1906-1926), edition Yvert and Tellier, 2004.
  • Francis Kelédjian, the Franc.K repertory of the frank new notebooks and euros (1960-2004), edition Dallay.
  • Yvert and Tellier, Catalog of the revenue stamps and socio-postal of France and Monaco (Headings “Receipts”, “Refugees and Stateless people”, like “Revenue stamp”), Amiens, Yvert and Tellier, 2004.

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