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Réunion
Return To Catalogue - Reunion 1894-1920 and miscellaneous
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Mail boat cancel: 'Reunion Ligne' on french colony stamp:
(Used copy, probably genuine)
15 c black on blue 30 c black on blue
Four types exist of both stamps. In the 15 c the halfmoon inside the circles in the corners are different for the different types (oriented in different ways). For more information about the different types see: http://iledelareunion.fr.st/. These stamps were used for the internal postage of the island. They are extremely rare; from both values only a total value of 8 Francs was sold. The rest was destroyed in 1860. They were valid from 10 December 1851 to 31 December 1859. Reprints exist (I presume some of the above stamps are reprints), the reprint of the 15 c can easily be detected by the fact that the borders were newly set: there are only 2 frame lines in the reprints (one thick and one thin) instead of 3 frame lines in the original (though the outer two lines are often badly distinguishable).
(The easiest type of the 30 c to distinguish, the upper left center part is rotated)
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 15 c | RRR | RRR | Reprint: RR |
| 30 c | RRR | RRR | Reprint: RR |
Fournier forgery:
(Fournier forgery)
(Fournier forgeries?)
I think the above forgeries are Fournier forgeries also; note the cancel 'REUNION 23 SEPT. 51 St BENOIT' which can be found in 'The Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries'.
In the genuine stamps, there is a dot and a hyphen before the word 'Poste'. The dot is considerably to the left of the hyphen (source Album Weeds).
Other forgeries:
(Possibly Peter Winter forgeries)
(Reduced sizes)
These bogus stamps have the inscription 'REUNION ISLE', besides the values 15 and 30 c (which are supposed to represent the first issue of Reunion, it is described in Album Weeds as the 4th forgery of the first Reunion stamps), also the values 1 c grey on grey, 5 c green on yellow, 10 c brown, 30 c black on blue, 40 c red on yellow and 80 c red on yellow (see picture above) exist. According to Album Weeds they are always cancelled with a diamond with lines (as above) or a square with horizontal lines. But I have also seen a cancel resembling a New South Wales cancel and uncancelled.
Eagle (imperforated)
'5 c. R' on 40 c orange '25 c. R' on 40 c orange
A misprint with '52' instead of '25' exists of the last stamp.
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 5 c on 40 c | RR | RR | Inverted surcharge exists |
| 25 c on 40 c | *** | *** | Inverted or double surcharges exist |
Napoleon (imperforated)
(Reduced view)
'5 c. R' on 30 c brown
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 5 c on 30 c | R | R | Double surcharge exists |
Ceres (imperforated)
(Reduced view)
'5 c. R' on 40 c orange
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 5 c on 40 c | *** | *** | Inverted or double surcharges exist |
Peace and Commerce (imperforated)
'5 c. R' on 30 c brown '5 c. R' on 40 c red '10 c. R' on 40 c red '20 c. R' on 30 c brown
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 5 c on 30 c | ** | ** | |
| 5 c on 40 c | R | R | Inverted and double surcharges exist |
| 10 c on 40 c | *** | *** | Double surcharge exists |
| 20 c on 30 c | *** | *** | |
Ceres (imperforated)
40 c orange 80 c red
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 40 c | RR | RR | |
| 80 c | R | R | |
Peace and commerce (imperforated)
30 c brown 40 c red 75 c red 1 F green
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 30 c | *** | *** | |
| 40 c | *** | *** | |
| 75 c | RR | RR | |
| 1 F | R | *** | |
On stamps with inscription 'Colonies Postes', perforated
1 c black on blue 2 c brown on yellow 4 c brown on grey 5 c green 10 c black 15 c blue 20 c red on green 25 c black 35 c grey on yellow 35 c grey on orange 40 c red 75 c red 1 F green
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| Inverted and double overprints exist | |||
| 1 c | * | * | |
| 2 c | * | * | |
| 4 c | ** | ** | |
| 5 c | * | c | |
| 10 c | ** | * | |
| 15 c | *** | * | |
| 20 c | R | *** | |
| 25 c | *** | * | |
| 35 c grey on yellow | *** | *** | |
| 35 c grey on orange | *** | *** | |
| 40 c | R | R | |
| 75 c | RR | RR | |
| 1 F | RR | RR | |
Surcharged (1891)
'02c' on 20 c red on green '2' (3 types) on 20 c red on green '15 c.' on 20 c red on green
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 02 c on 20 c | ** | ** | |
| '2' on 20 c | ** | ** | |
| 15 c on 20 c | *** | *** | |
The three types of the '2' for the 2 c on 20 c stamp:
(Erroneous overprint 'RUNION')
For the specialist: The overprint 'REUNION' should have an accent over the 'E', but it is more frequently encoutered without this accent. Erroneous impressions of this word exist, examples: 'REUNIOU', 'REUNIONR', 'REUNIN', 'REUNOIN', 'ERUNION', RUENION', 'REUINON, 'REVNION' and 'REUNION' with inverted 'E'. Furthermore, because of bad printing errors broken or absent letters can occur, like 'PEUNION' or 'EUNION'.
Forgeries:
(Forgery, reduced size)
The 13 values of the 'Colonies Postes' issues were forged by Fournier, they were offered for 7 Swiss francs in his 1914 pricelist. The overprints and the stamps themselves are forged. For more information on these forgeries click here.
'2 c.' (3 types) on 20 c red on green
Value of the stamps | |||
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon | *** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare | ||
| Value | Unused | Used | Remarks |
| 2 c on 20 c | * | * | |
The three types of surcharge on this stamp:
For more stamps of Reunion click here.
http://iledelareunion.fr.st/, very good with lots of information! Made by Benoit Chandanson.
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