Start of the sale:
Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Item n°730875830
Sale ends:
Friday, August 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM
France, Scott #2729, used, 1999, Bicentennary of the Birth of Sofiya Feodorovna Rostopchina, the Countess of Ségur (1799-1874), a Russian/French novelist; known best for her trilogy intended for children: "Sophie's Misfortunes" (1858), "Good Little Girls" (1858) and "The Holidays" (1859), stamp shows three children at play, Sophie and her two friends Camille and Madeleine, Sophie is a naughty little girl who lives with her parents Monsieur and Madame de Réan in a small castle-style house in the French countryside during the Second Empire; Sophie is very curious and adventurous and keeps making mistakes and blunders and gets into trouble, but she tries to get on the right track by imitating her two friends, 3 francs, multicolored, Scott 2019 catalog value: 30¢, nicely centered, vertical wavy line cancellation over the central image, sound back, good perforations. This is not a 'bait and switch;' the stamp you see is the stamp you will receive.
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