letter cards

The letter cards with the red 50c Peace were printed flat from September 1932 to May 1937. The stamps are type IIB.

Peace Type IIB has the following characteristics:

The "C" of 50c is touched up with a more rounded final loop

Two solid lines under the belt buckle

And finally, what distinguishes it from Type IIA, a pronounced bulge under “REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE”

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In addition, these cards have the particularity of having an issue index of 235 (1st draw) to 721 (last draw); it corresponds to a printing date. The first digit is that of the end of the year of printing, thus 2 for 1932, 7 for 1937 etc. The next two correspond to the week of printing, 35 for the 35th week and 21 for the twenty-first week.

The dates known to date are listed below (source ACEP).

The Workshop has sheets that meet the specifications of the whole to be manufactured (grammage, color, format) made available by the store.

The sheets are checked and controlled at the entrance to the Atelier and punched, which makes them sheets out of the store ready to be printed.

If this is not the case, they are returned and deducted from the sheets taken out of stock.

These sheets are printed in one pass (monochrome), then cut, glued (or not according to order), folded, then perforated (or not according to order).

From 1930 to 1941, a supplement of 5c was requested for the purchase of a letter card.

It is accepted that the letter cards were printed in sheets of 24. A sheet of 24 was made up of the juxtaposition (?) of 6 service plates of 4 letter cards in head to tail position.

Reconstruction of the service snapshot with the assumption that nothing has changed between the Sower type issue and that of the Peace type!

As for the plates of 24, with juxtaposition of six standard shots, I have no element to objectify one of the three possible representations schematized below (you could point out to me that there is a fourth geometric possibility; I am not speculating not on this one). Need to know the size of the standard sheets?

The buff color of letter cards 50c Peace

Above a "camaieu" of the chamois color. Card stock for printing letter cards has experienced slight but significant variations in tone. These may also have been exacerbated to a greater or lesser extent by the conditions in which the cards were kept.

Letter card 235. First printing September 1932

Letter card 721. Last printing May 1937.

Letter card n° 235 (35th week of 1932). Obliteration Daguin on the 283 Peace. Duval tax of 30c for the Poste Restante

Letter card No. 513 (13th week of 1935). Hexagonal identification mark of the Grasse A auxiliary office on the Peace Type and on the recommendation label. NB: The registration fee at 1.25F (Law 15.07.1932) does not appear on this letter card?

Letter card No. 528 (28th week of 1935). Obliteration of 18.0638 with date stamp n°4 Right of recommendation 1.25F (Paix+Semeuse) instead of 1.50F (Decree of 18.07.1937)

Letter card n° 629 (29th week of 1936). Right of recommendation (Law 15.07.1932) with a Victor Hugo stamp at 1.25F. Postmarked on 12.12.36 with date stamp n°4.

Letter card no. 448 (48th week of 1934). Postmarked on 24.10.35 with date stamp n°4. Sower recommendation fee at 25c. Regulatory rate 1.25F (Law 15.07.1932). Are the missing 1Fs missing from this letter card?

Letter card n° 650 (50th week of 1936). New letter card with addition of a 15c Sower in order to obtain the new rate for letters under 20g: 0.65F (Decree of 08.07.1937)

Letter card No. 721 (21st week of 1937). Postmarked on 2.10.37 with date stamp n°4. Postage at the new rate for letters under 20g: 0.65F (Decree of 08.07.1937)

Letter card No. 513 (13th week of 1935).

90c: Tariff of July 12, 1937 (D. 08.07.1937) for a 50g letter? Unlikely for a letter card!

90c: Tariff of November 17, 1938 (D. 12.11.1938) for 25g letter. Much more plausible! The 50c Red Peace letter cards continued after they ended printing in 1937…

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