40-centime card surcharged to 30 Centimes
(one of nine views)
The 40-centime card was issued on 15 April 1927 to pay the treaty rates to France and Germany. But with (or in anticipation of) the increase in those rates from 40c to 60c on 15 December 1927, a small quantity of the soon-to-be or now already obsolete 40-centime cards was surcharged, sometime during December, to 30 centimes for use to pay the 30c domestic rate and the 30c treaty rate to Belgium. But also on 15 December 1927, those two 30c rates were increased to 35c!
So then the remaining 40c card stock was surcharged to 35 centimes, probably late in December 1927. 27 December 1927 is my earliest use of the 35c/40c card (shown below at the bottom). The Luxembourg Handbook incorrectly lists the earliest date as “1928.”
As a consequence, I know of no sole use of the 30c/40c surcharged card! Any such use would have had to pre-date 15 December 1927, but the 30c/40c surcharged card apparently was not issued until shortly after 15 December 1927. (If I’m wrong, please show me the proof!)
Here’s a 23 December 1927 use posted from Wecker by the controversial Berbourg stamp dealer, N. Wagner. His message to the esteemed postal stationery enthusiast, P. W. Broekman in Amsterdam, mentions that he has three (new) surcharged cards. Take a look!
35c/40c Used 27 December 1927
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