FRANCE – 423779

FRANCE – Mint and used collection of roughly a thousand different issues tracing French postal stamps from the very first set in the middle of the 19^th century and into the 1970s on its opposite end presented in a Minkus album. While the book goes through over a century long period, it is primarily focused on the middle of the 20^th century with numerous semi-postal sets from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s! At the same time early portion of the collection includes better singles and sets like used #3, 6, 12, 20, 22, 31, 38, 47, 48, 66, 133-137, B11, among them and more! Gen. VERY FINE, mint og (We only photographed opening section to 1940, and sample selection going through the book, highlighting some of the key sections)