Robin (stamp)

The stamp Rouge-gorge (or Better wishes ) is a Timbre-poste emitted the French November 10th 2003 by La Poste. It became famous at the philatelists French when the specialized magazines discovered that it had also been emitted in the form of Block-layer.

Description

The stamp, drawn by Christian Broutin, represents a Oiseau species of the Rouge-gorge perched on the snow-covered branch of a tree. It holds in its nozzle a bit of Houx, symbol of the festivals of end of the year.

It is marked (in the direction of the needles of a watch, since the left higher corner): “RF - 0,50 €”, in white cursive writing “Better wishes”, and “La Poste”. It is printed in Héliogravure.

Use

Its facial value enabled him to free a letter from less than 20 grams intended for the France or a country from Western Europe, of which letters and greetings cards of at the end of 2003, at the beginning of 2004.

With this use, La Poste publicly emitted it in two forms in November 2003:

in notebook of ten self-adhesive stamps with prédécoupage undulated,
in stamp of sheet sold with the unit for the collectors.

The block-layer

During the month of January 2004, the French specialized magazines ( the Echo of the timbrology and Stamps magazine ) discover via their foreign fellow-members that the Rouge-gorge exists in the form of a Block-layer.

Description

This block-layer, drawn by Christian Boutin is consisted of the stamp in its center and around, of the scene of the tree to the covered with snow branches, on a bottom of blue sky. Its differences with the stamp of sheet are:

the stamp of the block does not have the two bands phosphorescence for the tri automatic of the mail,
the screen of impression of the stamp of sheet tends to being horizontal, that of the block is rather vertical.

La Poste sold it only on sale since November 2003 by correspondence. The block and its reference of order were reproduced only on the site of shop Internet, but not in the catalog paper. It was sold 3 € like remembering philatelic with a decorated greetings card.

The “business of the robin”

As of mid-February, the pulling of the memory is exhausted, that is to say 50.000 specimens postage stamp and of. La Poste receives the complaints of collectors réservataires emissions of the philatelic program, which did not receive the block (either approximately a little more than 500.000 people). The postal company ends up finding a stock sufficient to satisfy the few 150 réservataires having chosen the option to receive all the emissions.

During the year 2004, the block-layer undergoes a Spéculation in the merchants of stamps to serve the collectors which missed the purchase. In spring 2004, the selling price in the merchants of the block reaches 150 € for a value of sale of 3 € and a facial value of 0,50 €. Its price was stabilized since with 120 € on the Parisian philatelic gone. At the end of 2006, the speculation seems to deflate and one finds this block with 75 - to 80 €.

Since, La Poste emitted other layers with illustrated insert which knew pullings lower than the passion than they caused at the collectors: that related to the emission of the block Cut Gordon Bennett drawn with 60.000 specimens.

See too

Stamps and labels of Christmas

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