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Stamps

A turn-up for the booklets

By Frédéric Nicolino of the ACCP (part 2)

Following the ups-and-downs surrounding the arrival of the first rotary notebooks, below
are details of some rather surprising interactions between Maison Courmont and Maurice
Digeaux, a dealer and leading specialist in booklets of the period, and the ensuing conse-
quences.

1928 - The first booklets of postage stamps printed on rotary presses (continued)

We recently studied an archive containing a as a result of its contract with Courmont!
number of letters sent to a Courmont cus- They were given to a number of offices in
tomer by Maurice Digeaux, the dealer and the Paris region to be used on mail handed
leading booklet specialist of the period. In in over the counter. «It is strictly forbidden
it, we learned that he was particularly well to sell them whole.» He was nonetheless
connected in terms of the postage stamp able to obtain some, offering them in sets
administration and workshop environment. of 10 to his correspondent for 20 francs
In one of his letters, dated 3 February 1929, each, which was double the face value of
he refers to these 199 C 48 booklets as a the stamps: a bargain!
mistake made by the administration, which
realised it did not have the right to sell them

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