Peace and Trade (stamp)

Peace and the Trade being linked to reign on the world is a Allégorie being reproduced on a series of French stamps of everyday usage, also known under names Paix and standard Commerce and Sage ; this last name according to their draftsman Jules-Auguste Sage. The stamps were engraved by Louis-Eugene Mouchon for an impression in Typographie.

The subject is the alliance of the allegories of the Paix (a woman carrying a branch of olive-tree) and Commerce (pointing out the Greek God Hermes) being held the hand above a Globe. In addition to the mentions “POSTS” in top and “FRENCH REPUBLIC”, the facial value figure in a large rectangle hiding part of the sphere.

The first stamps of this series were emitted in 1876. They replaced the stamps of the Second Empire (effigies of Napoleon III) and the Cérès re-emitted in 1871. Impressions of new values took place until in 1900; they were replaced by the standard '' Blanc '', '' Mouchon '' and '' Merson ''. The impression of certain stamps Sage was carried out twice: a first passage for the prime coat and a second for the drawing.

These stamps constitute the first regular series not to be printed by Anatole Hulot, congédié by the administration of the stations in June 1876. From January 1876 to 1895, they are carried out in the Parisian printing works of the Rue of Hauteville, under the responsibility of the Banque de France, then under that of the stations which repurchase the material and the buildings. From 1895 to 1900, they are the first left the Brown printing works of the Boulevard, in the south of Paris.

See too

Random links: