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Steve ![]() Mint ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3299 |
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Nice one
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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The headline reads: The Crook Fontanille researched in vain for two years It Was Suicide... Incognito Having gone on the run over a previous scam (involving silver foxes), he moved to Marseille in 1925 under yet another assumed name, Baron Edmond Picarat. There he began another scam involving setting up a charity for leprosy. On the verge of being arrested he committed suicide by taking poison on 10th March 1927. This final identity was, perhaps, his greatest success despite his failure and despite his suicide! He was buried as Picarat and in L'Echo d'Alger for 11th March 1927 (in contrast to the headline in Le Petit Parisien) the headline ran: A Knight of Industry. The connection to Fontanille was not made for several months when his body was exhumed and re-buried under his real name. Gaston Fontanille was a conman well before he produced his stamps under the name Delandre which was just one of many names that he used in his lifetime. He was never a successful conman, in 1923 it was reported that he had been arrested 15 times! The stamps, of course, also another scam, represent his lasting legacy.
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Steve ![]() Mint ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 March 2010 Location: Wrexham Status: Offline Points: 3299 |
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The public often like to read about scoundrels - providing they weren't a victim of a con
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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Here is an interesting item that I picked up recently. It is an envelope, quite small, about 2" by 3", with a stamp promoting French Red Cross stamps. I assume it contained further Delandres originally but it came with this leaflet advertising an album with 400 stamps!
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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By the way, the first 5 volumes of the Delandre catalogues also state that Delandre died in prison in 1923. Little wonder that this error is repeated.
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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There has been an important new Delandre discovery. Up until now, it had been thought that Delandre ceased producing stamps in 1917. New research shows that a series of Cinderellas known as Bonne Annee and produced in 1919/1920 were in fact produced by Gaston Fontanille. A new book, which I have ordered, also give a new timeline for Fontanille. One of the main source is likely to be French newspapers of the time, more readily available to French speakers. I look forward to reading it.
The book is called Delandre and the Bonne Annee 1920 Stamps by R G Lafreniere, published by Bird Bear Press.
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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These are my most recent Delandre purchases and they include relatively rare items.
Top row, French Cruiser Battleship, Bruix. Unlisted and part perforated. Second row, French Cruiser Battleship, Gloire. Proof. Third row, Batttleship Condorcet. Missing colours, proof and regular version. ![]() |
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Daniel ![]() Unhinged ![]() ![]() Joined: 30 March 2010 Location: Twickenham Status: Offline Points: 961 |
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Here are 2 examples of Gaston Fontanille's post Delandre stamps in the Happy New Year series. These are for Monmouthshire and depict the Welsh Dragon.
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These 2 are examples from Fontanille's Porte Timbre series for France. Porte timbre literally means to carry a stamp and a space is usually left blank to carry a small definitive postage stamp as seen below.
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