Philippe de Bosredon of the Bridge

Philippe de Bosredon of the Bridge (born in 1827) was a French personality of the Second Empire and an eminent collector of postal stamps and tax.

Political career

To advise State, he was government Commissioner and defended the policy of Napoleon III in front of the legislative Body. It in particular defended, in 1866, before this assembly, the bill aiming at creating the stamps of Dispatch (Stamps Telegraph). It seems to be fallen in disgrace with the fall from the imperial mode, which gave him the leisure to contribute to the philatelic literature.

Philatelist

At this point in time there was devoted more particularly to the Philatélie, by publishing in the editor Pierre Mahé a Monographie of the mobile revenue stamps , remained one of the Master-works of the tax Philatélie French. In this work of avant-garde, left catalogs without dimensions, Bosredon binds the successive emissions of revenue stamps to the texts at the origin of their creations (of which it gives broad extracts), like with the evolution of the tariffs.
Among the list of the French and colonial revenue stamps emitted, it seems the first to have added the tests and tests which it met.

In its Monograph , Bosredon does not take however account of the consecutive handwritten overloads with the increase in the tax tariffs, decided by the law of August 23rd, 1871. If it evokes, certainly, the “stamps modified” by the official claws, pursuant to this law, it does not take into account the provisional overloads with the feather. This bias is certainly the consequence of what, at the time, the stamps only collected detached and stuck in a album, but not on documents.
So that, only the maintenance on document of the stamps overloaded with the hand making it possible to authenticate their overload, these figurines did not owe, in its eyes, being collectionnables.

Scholar

Among its work of historical scholarship, which seems to have been multiple, Bosredon wrote, inter alia, the " List abbots who controlled the old abbeys of the Périgord”, published in the Bulletin of the archaeological Société of Périgord (volume 1,1874).

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