VOL. XXXI, NUMBER 5

SEPTEMBER 2005

American HelvetiaPhilatelic Society

Varieties of the 10c and 20c Valuesof the 1931 Pro Juventute Issue

by Richard T. Hall with the assistance of Pierre Guinand

Based on an article entitled "L'émission Pro Juventute 1931 10 et 20cts"

by Pierre Guinand published in the August 1965 Schweizer BriefmarkenZeitung (78 . Jahrgang, Nr . 8, pp . 249-250).

I recently acquired a complete collection of Schweizer Briefmarken Zeitungs dating back to

1955. In the process of going through this treasure house of information I have run across severalarticles written by our fellow member, Pierre Guinand, which have impressed me as some of the more

important studies of varieties on modern Swiss stamps . But these articles are virtually lost to theAmerican collector . In an effort to bring these important articles to the attention of our membership, Ihave contacted M. Guinand who has graciously allowed me to paraphrase his articles, originallywritten in French, in TELL . More importantly he has agreed to loan me the original illustrations

from these articles . This is doubly important as the older issues of the SBZ were on low-quality paperwhich has yellowed considerably over the years and the half-tone illustrations suffer in a lack ofdetail .

This article is the first of an irregular series of paraphrases of M . Guinand 's articles on modern

Swiss varieties, updated by comments from M . Guinand as appropriate.

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It is well known to philatelists that the classic issues offer a much vaster field of research thando the more modern issues . The philatelist only has to look at the specialized catalogs . However,

there are some modern issues that also merit exploration, but it is well known that the "serious "

philatelist only cares about the classic issues.

And there is good reason for this . The modern issues rely on highly reproducible, mechanicalmeans in producing the printing plates, thus limiting human intervention and the resultantvariations . But there are modern issues which still had a significant human factor in theirproduction. This is especially true when a new printing process is put into use . Mistakes andexperimentation are more likely to occur with a new process than with one which has been used fordecades.

Such is the case with the photogravure stamps of Switzerland. The firm of Courvoisier began

using the photogravure process to produce stamps for Switzerland in 1931 with the Pro Juventuteissue, Zumstein PJ 57-60 . The three lower value of this set were printed by Courvoisier using theirnewly-developed photogravure process . [The high value is engraved .]

M . Guinand reported on his discovery of three different types of the 10c and 20c values of this

set in 1965, 34 years after their issuance! [IVI . Guinand reported, and confirms today, that the 5c value

appears not to have been produced in different types, despite his examination of large numbers of thisvalue.]

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ContentsVarieties of the 10e and 20c Values of the 1931 Pro Juventute Issue

by Richard T. Hall with the assistance of Pierre Guinand 1President's Message 3Stone Wins Champion of Champions 3Strubel Pigment Study 4Profile of a Stamp Collector: Dick Hall 4SWISSAIR in World War II, Part 2 by Reinhard Stutz 5Matterhorn Meanderings by Richard T. Hall 10

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Copyright 2005, The American Helvetia Philatelic Society(AHPS) . TELL (ISSN 1042-2072) is the official journal of theAmerican Helvetia Philatelic Society, affiliate #52 of theAmerican Philatelic Society and a member of the Union of SwissPhilatelic Societies. TELL is published bimonthly(Jan/Mar/May/Jul/Sep/Nov).Opinions expressed in this journal are those of the authors andare not necessarily endorsed by AHPS or the Editor.Letters and articles on Swiss, Liechtenstein, UN Geneva andrelated philately are welcome and should be sent to the Editor.Whenever possible, submit material by e-mail in plain text or asa Microsoft Word attachment. Illustrations are encouraged and

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President's MessageSince 1990 TELL has been printed and distrib-uted by a firm headed by Roland Essig . He re-cently notified us that he has sold his building

and is closing his business . Roland has providedexcellent service for 15 years, which we willmiss. Thank you Roland, we wish you the best inthe future.

It is not too early to start making yourplans to join us in San Francisco during April2006 for the AHPS convention . There will be aseminar, a business meeting, a swap session and

a dinner at a Swiss restaurant . Those who at-

tend always enjoy the conventions . See youthere .

Bill

Stone Wins Championof Champions

In an unprecedented level of participa-tion at an annual APS Stampshow, eight AHPS

members with ten exhibits brought Swiss phi-lately forcefully to the attention of American col-lectors during August 4-7 in Grand Rapids,Michigan.

Harlan Stone delivered a knockout by

winning the Champion of Champions competi-tion among the grand award winners from U.S.shows during July 2004-June 2005. Also receiv-

ing an automatic gold among the C of C exhibi-tors was Ralph Soderberg. Remarkably, theyboth displayed the Sitting Helvetia, not the firsttime this has happened during their many years

of exhibiting .

In the open competition, Ralph did nearly

as well, receiving the reserve grand and theHelvetia medal for his Standing Helvetia . Other

AHPS open winners were John Steinberg, gold,AAPE creativity award and best illustrated mailaward for Suchard's advertising on postal sta-

tionery and other media ; Steve Turchik, gold for

Strubels; Ernest Bergman, gold for Nazi era ci-vilian refugee and military internee mail; andHarry Winter, vermeil for 1912-21 Pro Juven-

tutes .

In the one-frame competition, StephenReinhard won gold for 1913 Pioneer Airmail;Charles LaBlonde vermeil for 1943-45 U .S.-

Swiss airmail postal relations ; and Harlan

Stone, vermeil and best 1-frame postal station-ery award for early postal cards in international

mails .

AHPS member Kurt Kimmel from Swit-

zerland was on the jury.

Other Recent Swiss Exhibit Winners

Ernest Bergman, Nazi era civilian refu-

gee and military internee mail, CHICAGOPEX04, gold.

Anthony Dewey, intellectual aid to POWs

(1-frame), CHICAGOPEX 04, gold, UNPhlatelists gold.

Bruce Marsden, 1912-37 Pro Juventutes,LINPEX 05, vermeil; WESTPEX 05, vermeil.

Michael Peter, 1828-45 Swiss-French

mail, ST. LOUIS 05, gold; MINNESOTA 05, re-

serve grand; PLYMOUTH 05, gold, AmericanPhilatelic Congress award. Zeppelin mail to

South America, ST . LOUIS 05, gold . Light blue

Rayon I stones (1-frame), ST. LOUIS 05, ver-

meil.

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Stephen Reinhard, 1913 pioneer airmail

flights (1-frame), PHILATELIC SHOW 05,grand, gold, APS 1900-40; NOJEX 05, grand,gold, APS 1900-40, American Philatelic Con-gress award.

Ralph Soderberg, Sitting Helvetia, ST.

LOUIS 05, grand, gold ; Cross & Numeral, PLY-MOUTH 05, reserve grand, gold, Helvetiamedal .

John Steinberg, Suchard 's advertising,AMERISTAMP 05, gold ; NOJEX 05, gold.

Harlan Stone, postal wrappers, NOJEX05, gold, best stationery runner-up . Early postal

cards in international mails (1-frame), NOJEX05, gold. Hotel posts (1-frame), AMERISTAMP05, gold. 1937-38 mobile post offices (1-frame),AMERISTAMP 05, vermeil.

Andrew Urushima, 1944 Olympic jubilee(1-frame), TEXPEX 05, vermeil ; NAPEX 05,gold.

Strubel Pigment StudyJohn Barrett has done a chemical analy-

sis of the pigments on 1 franc Strubels . He re-ports that the mauve (aniline purple,

hellviolettgrau) synthetic pigment was used onat least one printing of the yellow-threaded pa-per (Zurich) . Earliest usage of this pigment hehas seen is Dec .1857, although earlier dates areprobably around. He used UV/Visible spectros-copy (comparative) to identify it, as well as acertain amount of basic human eye color differ-entiation. He has also seen this color used on afew Zumstein so-called 'E' numbers.

The pigment is extremely liable to light,chlorine- containing water, heat, and humidity!

Profile of a Stamp Col-lector: Dick Hall

What ' s new with our longest-serving

AHPS officer, Richard T . Hall, PhD (UC Berke-

ley, 1959, in physical chemistry)? Since he waslast written up in the September 1995 issue ofTELL by Robert Gleichenhaus, this will serve as

an update on his activities . Please note how

much younger he looks with his two favorite

women pictured with him – granddaughterLaina, 3 1/2 , and wife Yolanda, age 39+.

This year Dick passed our longest-servingtreasurer, Frank Young (1979 – 2001) . Dick

says "It's strange that after many years, whensomeone calls up and says they're such andsuch, I can recognize (continued on page 16)

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SWISSAIR in World War IIby Reinhard Stutz

Translated by Charles J. LaBlonde from SBZ 3/2004 and 4/2004

Part 2: Activity to the North

Resumption of Air Service between Switzerland and Germany

At the same time that Swissair was in negotiation with Spain and Italy they were also in talkswith Germany. Director Groh went to Berlin for the first time in November 1939 but came away withnothing to show for his efforts . In January 1940 Swissair received a letter from Lufthansa indicatingthe Third Reich Air Ministry was ready to sign an agreement with Switzerland . The route of interest

was Altenrhein to Munich. The restriction from the German side was that only mail and freight couldbe carried on this route . But such a line offered no practical advantage for the Swiss PTT . Because ofan agreement between the Swiss PTT and the German PTT in Berlin, all mail from Switzerland had

to be delivered to the German Army Censor Office in Frankfurt am Main . Therefore this project nevercame to fruition. Swissair Director Groh, based upon shrewd negotiations, managed to obtain approvalfor a line Dübendorf – Munich to be opened by the end of September . Because of German law all Swis-

sair crewmembers on this route were required to hold an Aryan identity card.

Routing of Mail Determined by Location of German Censor Offices

The locations of the German Army CensorOffices were the deciding factor in determininghow to route Swiss terminal mail to Germany . Un-til 31 March 1943 all Swiss mail to Germany --with some exceptions -- was censored in Frankfurt.After 1 April 1943 this was changed to the Munichoffice. For Swiss mail transiting Germany, censor-ship responsibility was determined by the destina-tion of the mail . Airmail from Switzerland to othercountries was generally censored in Berlin . Itmust be remembered that airmail from Switzer-

The Douglas DC-2 aircraft came into service . This photoshows one under guard at Dübendorf . (Muser)

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The Swissair timetable was revised already on 7 October1940 .

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land to Germany was not allowed. Germany did not possess the internal transport capacity for suchmail . Swiss letters before March 1943 to Germany marked for airmail were actually sent by surfacetransport . The Swiss PTT, in all of its publications, kept reminding the public not to send airmail toGermany but many airmail letters still appeared in the mail stream, either from mailboxes or fromwriters ignorant of the rules.

Zürich (Dübendorf) — Munich(Riem), 30 September 1940 to 14 No-vember 1941

The announcement of the resumption ofZürich -- Munich airmail appeared in the CPAL of 1October 1940, shown as Line 201 . The route Munich-- Zürich was known to the Stuttgart Office of theGerman PTT as Line 92.

Flight Plan:

Workdays : 1000 Depart Zürich

1210 Arrive Munich

1430 Depart Munich1440 Arrive Zürich

As early as 3 October 1940 this flight planwas changed . And it was revised again on 1 Novem-ber . These changes were required to coordinate thearrival of Swissair with the departure of the Luf-thansa flight from Munich to Berlin.

The delivery of the mail from the Basel 2 col-lection office to the airport Zürich (Dübendorf) wasby train. In Munich there were flight connections toBerlin – Copenhagen – Malmö and Berlin – Prague.There was airmail service as follows:

From 30 September 1940 to Bohemia and Mora-via, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

From December 1940 to Finland and Sweden.

From January 1941 to Estonia, Finland, Latvia,Lithuania, Sweden, USSR and Iran.

From April 1941 to parts of China (under theChunking Government).

Interested persons can obtain from the au-thor a complete list of airmail destinations and ratesas of 1 May 1941.

A revision of the Lufthansa route Berlin –Lisbon effective 17 June 1941, to call at Munich in-

stead of Stuttgart, offered the Swiss PTT the chanceto send airmail via Germany to Lisbon and thus tothe world. In the CPAL of August 1941 this possibil-ity was first published. On 20 October 1941 Luf-thansa reverted to their Stuttgart stopover. Theconnection to Barcelona and Lisbon went away(claimed by Iberia Spanish Airlines?).

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26 March 1942 . Airmail Chemitz to Switzerland. Postage:Foreign letter less than 20 grams 25 pfennigs plussurcharge for airmail up to 20 grams 10 pfennigs = 35 pfen-nigs . The mail from Germany had to be censored inFrankfurt am Main (Code "e").

12 .8.42 (Wednesday). Airmail express Lausanne-Sweden . Postage : Foreign letter to 20 grams 30 rappenplus airmail surcharge 20 rappen plus express fee 60rappen = 1 .10 francs total . Route : Processed at Basel 2,rail to Zürich, flown by Swissair on 13 August 1942(Thursday) Zürich (Dübendorf) -- Stuttgart -- Berlin (0830to 1200) . Detoured by the German Post Office to theBerlin Censor Office (Code "ID") . Flown on 14 August 1942(Friday) Berlin – Copenhagen – Malmö -- Stockholm(1445-1845) . Arrival shown as 15 .8 .1943 6 -7 (Saturday).

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The backof the aboveletter

Unloading the fuselage of D-ATJG from a railcar in Novem-ber 1941 at the Swissair workshop at Dübendorf . One cansee the simple, hand-operated equipment available at thistime . (Muser)

11 .11 .1943-21 (Thursday) : Airmail letter from Zürich to Leip-zig . Postage : Letter 30 rappen and airmail surcharge 20rappen = 50 rappen total . Route : Postmarked Zürich 1 on12 November 1943 (Friday), Dübendorf-Stuttgart (Swissair).Detoured to the German Munich Censor Office (Code "d").Back to Stuttgart . Lufthansa Stuttgart-Berlin, train to Leipzig .

28 March 1944 . Airmail letter from Le Locle to Brazil . Post-age : Letter 30 rappen plus airmail surcharge of 150 rappen= 1 .80 francs total . Route : Processed at Basel 2 (handwrit-ten note by the post office), rail to Zürich, to Stuttgart viaSwissair, rail to the Berlin Censor Office, Berlin-Stuttgart-Madrid-Lisbon via Lufthansa, via PAA Lisbon-Natal-NewYork, censored by the USA, New York-Miami-San Juan-Portof Spain-Para-Barreiras-Rio de Janeiro-Porto Alegre . Arrival28 June 1944. Passed by Brazil censor but not opened.Delivered on 29 June 1944 . The GB transit censorship inBermuda and Trinidad had ended in middle April 1944.

Meanwhile Switzerland and Germany hadbeen negotiating for further Swissair routes in

Germany. Swissair requested flight permission

beyond Munich and this request was at first tabled by Germany . The sudden cancellation by

Germany of the Swissair route Zürich/Dübendorf to Munich on 14 November 1941 was never explained.

The Route Zürich (Dübendorf) -- Stuttgart (Echterdingen) — Berlin(Tempelhof) from 19 November 1941 to 31 January 1943

The resumption of the shared route Zürich — Stuttgart -- Berlin was a result of work by theSwiss ambassador in Berlin . Based upon expectations of much traffic Swissair employed a DC-3 forthis service. For the first two days of the route the flight ended in Dresden, due to poor weather condi-tions. And on 21 November the Swissair DC-3 only got as far as Stuttgart before turning back . On the

fourth try, 22 November 1941, the DC-3 finally reached Berlin-Tempelhof.

In the Reichspost airmail list of 5 October 1941 we read the following:

"1 . Service on Line Nr . 92(41) Munich-Zürich is ended ."

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"2. A new line between Berlin and Zürich has been opened with a stopover in Stuttgart . Theline will be flown by Swissair according to the following plan:

Line 94 (12) Berlin – Stuttgart -- Zürich, was the responsibility of the Reichspostdirektion(RPD) Berlin:

Workdays :

1335 Depart Berlin

1605 Arrive Stuttgart1625 Depart Stùttgart

1610* Arrive Zürich0820* Depart Zürich

1005 Arrive Stuttgart1025 Depart Stuttgart

1255 Arrive Berlin.

Postal delivery arrangements on the Swiss end were unchanged.

Swissair Takesover Repair andMaintenance forLufthansa

On 21 August 1941

the Lufthansa DouglasDC-3 D-ATJG crashed on

landing in Oslo-Fornebu.The Swedish airline ABArefused to repair the ma-chine but Swissair took onthe task. In November thedamaged aircraft wastransported by rail to theSwissair facility in Düben-dorf. Thus began a wel-come but dangerous liaisonbetween Swissair and Luf-thansa. Swissair repaireda DC-2 and a DC-3 imme-

diately and handled 11 re-pairs all together . In 1943this work was Swissair'slargest source of income.

The cooperation ended atthe start of 1944.

The Swissair DC-2 destroyed by the Allies at the airport Stuttgart (Echterdingen) on9 August 1944 . (Muser)

Page from the logbook of Pilot Hans Kuhn, showing his entries from 9 to 11 August 1944.(Muser)

Zürich (Dübendorf) — Stuttgart (Echterdingen) : 1 Feb. 1943 to 16 Aug.1944

On 1 February 1943 Swissair was forced by the German Government to give up service on thelucrative Zürich – Stuttgart -- Berlin line.

On 9 February 1943 the Reich Air Ministry published the following: "The portion of Line 94(Swissair) Berlin – Stuttgart -- Berlin is ended."

The new flight plan first appeared in the CPAL of 1 April 1943:.

Workdays

0840 Depart Zürich

1030* Arrive Stuttgart1625* Depart Stuttgart

1615 Arrive Zürich

Possible connections in Stuttgart included Berlin and Barcelona -- Lisbon . Swissair served this

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shorter route with a DC-2.

According to instructions in the PTT CPAL of 1 April 1943 airmail, with proper surcharge paid

for Germany and Bohemia/Moravia, could now be carried by Swissair . Up to this point airmail for

Germany could not be carried by Swissair on the Zürich (Dübendorf) -- Germany route.

Beginning 1 March 1943 the German Postal Direction Stuttgart had responsibility for thisroute.

The Unavoidable End in August 1944At the start of August 1944 everything was going well, despite the Allied air attacks on

Germany . But during an Allied bombing attack against Stuttgart on 9 August 1944 the Swissair DC-2HB-ISI was destroyed on the ground. Neither personnel nor mail was destroyed. On 17 August 1944

service on the last Swiss airmail route came to an end . The risk, due to the war, was just too great to

continue. A planned airmail service by Lufthansa between Stuttgart and Zürich (Dübendorf) neverhappened.

Commemorative Flight 1944 and "Whooping Cough Flight"On 20 September 1944 a commemorative

flight took place along the route of the militaryflights of 1919. The flight commemorated the 25 th

year of Swiss airmail . A DC-2 (HB-ITE) flew the

route Zürich – Bern – Lausanne – Geneva –Lausanne – Bern -- Zürich . Collectors were allowedto designate the portion of the route for their com-

memorative covers. A total of 85,650 covers wereflown. Any cover with at least the SFr 1 .50 specialstamp affixed was allowed . After paying all bills in-cluding the PTT, Swissair made the extraordinaryamount of 24,842 .25 francs . The so-called "Whoop-ing Cough Flights" for children that had taken placesince 1940, also made a small amount.

Notes*German Summer Time = 1 hour difference from Middle European Time which was used in Switzer-land.

The numbers assigned to the various flights designate postal routes.

RPM = German Postal Administration (Reichspostministerium)DLH = German Lufthansa Airlines (Deutsche Luft Hansa)PAA = Pan American Airways

SourcesPTT Amtsblätter (PTA)PTT CPALsAirmail Lists of the German Postal Department (Berlin)Swissair im Kampf und Aufsteig, Robert Fretz, 1973Swissair 1939-1945, Alfred Muser, Schuck Verlag, 8134 Adliswil, 1996

Various WW II Literature.

20 September 1944 . Commemorative flight from Bern toGeneva . The official stamp had to be used for this flight.Official cover with official airmail label

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Matterhorn Meanderingsby Richard T. Hall

This will be an abbreviated report this issue due to a conflict of duedates and travel . There are no new K-cancels to report this month but thereis a new Sondercancel that is part of a continuing series highlighting theSwiss Path along the Vierwaldstättersee . This year the fifth section of thepath from Seedorf to Flüelen in canton Uri is publicized in the annualBundesfeier (August 1) cancel from 6441 Rütli.

This year's cancel shows the BurgRudenz in Flüelen. The cancel (Fig. 1)

shows a nice rendering of the castlewhich is on the Urisee arm of theVierwaldstättersee . Figure 2 shows a photograph of the castletaken from the Flüelen web site (www .fluelen .ch) . The original

part of the castle was the stone keep which forms the base of thepresent castle . This keep dates from the early 13th century. Thekeep was added onto in the 19th century with the residential

upper stories . There used to be a courtyard extending from the castle to the lake which was a customspoint for travel over the Gotthard route.

While there are no new K-cancels to report, there is a new Group 3machine cancel (F.3.327) (Fig. 3) which was put into service on June 1, 2005.It replaces the previous Group 3 machine cancel (F3 .312, "Moutier Art ettechnique") which was last used on May 31, 2005.

Here's the latest in the long list of post office closings.

1. On March 24, 2005, the post office at 9651 Ennetbühl (canton St . Gallen)was closed. [K-cancel 351a was last used on that date .]

2. On March 31, 2005, the post office at 8415 Gräslikon (canton Zürich) was closed.

3. On April 30, 2005, the post office at 6000 Luzern 11 Kreuzstutz was closed.

4. On May 7, 2005, the post office at 3096 Oberbalm (canton Bern) was closed.

5. On May 24, 2005, the post office at 3603 Thun 3 Lerchenfeld was closed.

6. On May 28, 2005, the following post offices were closed:

6990 Cassina d'Agno (canton Ticino).6656 Golino (canton Ticino)

7. On May 31, 2005, the following post offices were closed:

1791 Courtaman (canton Fribourg)

8225 Siblingen (canton Schaffhausen)4942 Walterswil (canton Bern)

8. On June 30, 2005, the following post offices were closed:

3552 Bärau (canton Bern)

1934 Bruson (canton Valais)5704 Egliswil (canton Aargau)3645 Gwatt (Thun) (canton Bern)

8314 Kyburg (canton Zürich) [K-cancel 1465 was last used on that date .]1948 Lourtier (canton Valais)

That's all for this time . Let's hear your questions and answers to previous questions.

Figure 2 . Burg Rudenz

Figure 1

Figure 3

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Varieties of the 10c and 20c Valuesof the 1931 Pro Juventute Issue

(Continued from page 1) Based on conversations with officials at Courvoisier in the 1960s, itappears that these two values were each printed from three different cylinders, each printing two post

office sheets. Thus there are six possible different sources of a particular stamp . An illustration of

this is the so-called "pearl" variety of the 20c value with its subsequent retouches . According to the

Zumstein Specialized Catalogue, the colored "pearl" is designated a plate error (Plattenfehler)[Zumstein 59 .2 .01] and the white "pearls" are designated as retouches (Retouchierungen) [Zumstein

59.3.01] . M. Guinand has been unable to trace any of the varieties of the 10c value along a similarplate error - retouch path.

These same conversations with Courvoisier yielded the information that three different

negatives were prepared for each value which were then used to make up the sheet of 50 . Tables I

and II give the layouts of the three negatives (Types) for each value.

Table I . Distribution of Types

Table II . Distribution of Types

in a sheet of the 10c Value

in a sheet of the 20c Value

As an aside, one might wonder why three different negatives were used and why they seem to

be randomly placed in the sheet . I am reminded of the 1948 Buildings series of Germany, printed

under very difficult post-war circumstances . The printing plates were made up from a negative whichwas a smaller unit (4 by 4 or some other convenient size) which was then reproduced multiple times to

produce the 10 by 10 plate . When it was discovered that some of the transfers were defective, the

defective negative was cut out of the sheet and a replacement was pasted in . Perhaps the same

situation occurred in 1931 for Courvoisier . Regardless of the reason, there are three types of each ofthe 10c and 20c values . The characteristics of the three types are shown in Figures 1 to 3 for the 10cvalue and 4 to 6 for the 20c value . The varieties are coded as follows:

D is a dotL is a lineB is a breakW is a large area

O is other than a dot or line

Circled items are the principal identifying characteristics of the type.

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Figure 1 . 10-Rp . Type l

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Figure 2 . 10-Rp . Type II

Figure 3 . 10-Rp . Type III

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Figure 4 . 20-Rp . Type l

Figure 5 . 20-Rp . Type II

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Figure 6 . 20-Rp . Type Ill

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Profile of a Stamp Col-lector: Dick Hall(continued from page 4) their name . I guesssending out dues notices for 23 years, somethingmust stick in your memory ."

Dick began writing his regular column,Matterhorn Meanderings, in 1997 and has writ-ten 29 columns . However, he says "I depend onthe membership to provide questions and an-swers for the column . Don't be bashful withyour questions or secretive with your answers ."In other articles, Dick has also produced theBeans columns (on plate flaws and varieties) forTELL . Besides all this, Dick has been the in-dexer for the USSS journal The United StatesSpecialist for the past fifteen years.

What are his current collecting interests?"My passion is in the 20th century Swiss issues,the K cancels, machine cancels, and automobilepost cancels . And as you saw in the May TELL,I'm working on an exhibit of the 1939 Landes-ausstellung; its associated stamps and specialflights ." He also states that he has a collectionof 20th century France, and the 1948 buildingsseries of Germany . Finally, he collects BritishEmpire/Commonwealth of Kings George V and

VI and Queen Elizabeth II up to the 1980s or so,plus the British Machin series, "so my interestsare probably wider than they should be, but Ihave fun."

Now please listen carefully to what hehas to say here : "I am currently in the process ofscanning all the back issues of TELL, workingbackwards . I just started Volume 17 (1991). Asthey get scanned and converted to pdf files, Iship them off to Bruce Marsden, who mounts

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Plan to attend/exhibit at these AHPSConventions and shows:

WESTPEX, April 28-30, 2006 -- SanFrancisco Contact: Donn Lueck (see page 2)

St. Louis Stamp Expo, March 2-4, 2007 --St. Louis; Contact : Michael Peter (see page2 for addresses)

them on the AHPS web site . Once I finish thescanning, I will index the whole kit and kaboo-dle ."

Let 's talk about his non-philatelic life.After retiring in 2000, they moved from Califor-nia to the mountains of western North Carolina,

where they built and moved into their dreamhouse in 2001 where "we have a beautiful viewof the Pisgah range or the Appalachians (theBlue Ridge is a parallel range to the Pisgahs but

doesn't extend quite this far south) . We can see

the Blue Ridge Parkway from our front porch . Ivolunteer at the Parkway Information Center atthe Folk Art Center here in Asheville one day a

week." They still return to their native Califor-nia to visit parents and relatives, but do theymiss living there? "not one iota – too many peo-ple, too many cars – and this is coming from a

native son and a native daughter of California!"

September 2005