Lot 50562 – 1929-41, THE “GRANDS MONTENEZ” ISSUES Extensive s

1929-41, THE “GRANDS MONTENEZ” ISSUES Extensive specialised exhibition collection neatly mounted on 80 exhibition pages showing a very complete presentation of this fascinating issue. The purpose of this issue at the time was to provide for stamps with a very high face value (up to 100 francs) in order to satisfy the franking of mainly airmail postage to South America. The collection begins with a very comprehensive presentation of the various die proofs and essays showing items without denomination and a range of the non-adopted “FRS” types, then imperforates of the 10F, 20F, 50F and 100F, Ministerial Proofs, a study on the various perforations and some varieties, the different Malines and Paris prints, shades including for example the very rare 20F green-black shade and the 100F “lie de vin” shade. The last section being a very extensive section of various usages on covers going abroad, many to Africa including other than Belgian Congo, the airmails to Canada, Colombia, Paraguay. Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Afghanistan, India, Dutch Indies and Australia, no doubt one of the most extensive collections ever formed, see web for a complete set of scans of the collection Estimate: € 50’000 – € 70’000