Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Post-WWII Fiscal Use of the G.D. Charlotte 3rd Series definitives


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Gouvernement grand-ducal
Office des Licences

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002 
10-Fr Charlotte (3rd Ser.)
License fee for a license to import
100 tons of sugar syrup from Cuba
(Contract value = US $31,500)
20 November 1946
As reconstruction began after World War II in Luxembourg, printing new revenue stamps was a low priority.  Instead, the G.D. Charlotte 3rd Series definitives, issued in 1944 and 1946, were used.  Thus, we often find these stamps with government-agency fiscal cancels, such as you see here, particularly the higher denominations.  But uses on documents are scarce.
 
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1 1/4-Fr (4)
Administration Communale
Steinfort

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