Recent key type additions: Asselborn, Betzdorf & Kopstal

Recently Added Communal Key Types

Asselborn

(dead commune)

Betzdorf

 Kopstal

This website now features communal revenues from over 100 communes, past and present.  Take a look at the menu to view your favorite commune.  

Send scans of stamps not shown to arsdorf@gmail.com.  I'll publish them here.

Newly discovered Echternach pictorial

Echternach

Pavillon & Park
Pictorial

 

 

Do other denominations exist?  Who has more information about this attractive pictorial?  Send scans to Arsdorf@gmail.com. I'll publish them here.

 

Diekirch -- Pre-WW2 3F 'Deivelselter' Pictorial Used on a Child's Identity Card

Prior to World War 2, Diekirch issued a beautiful set of pictorials.  From the Zwitserloot collection, here is the 3F Pictorial showing the ancient Deivelselter monument used on an identity card dated 5 September 1939 for a sixteen-year-old girl from Diekirch.  This is the first I've seen of an identity card for a child.  Her family may have had the card issued out of concern that the German occupation was imminent.  

All pre-1940 uses of communal revenue stamps are scarce.  This is a nice discovery!

Courtesy of Martien Zwitserloot

The ancient Deivelselter monument

 overlooking Diekirch

Den Däiwelselter bei Dikrech ass e megalitheschen Ensembel deen 1815an e Koup gefall war an 1892 restauréiert gouf.

De 7 Meter héije Steebou ass keen Altor, wéi den Numm et suggeréiert, mä et soll sech ëm e Graf aus dem 2. Joerdausend virun eiser Zäitrechnung handelen. Den "Däiwelselter" ass deemno dat eelst Monument zu Dikrech.

Op der rietser Säit vun der Strooss vun Dikrech op Miedernach, kuerz nom Waasserreservoir, weist e Schëld op den Ufank vum Trëppelwee fir bis dobäi.

Nom Däiwelselter ass d'Informatiounsblat vun der Gemeng Dikrech genannt ginn: "Den Däiwelselter".

[From Wikipedia in Luxembourgish!]

Luxembourg-Ville -- Newly Reported Design

Previously Unreported Design

 

100F

Taxe Communale 

 

Martien Zwitserloot reports the discovery of this attractive 100F communal revenue from Luxembourg-Ville.  

 

I wonder why we haven't seen it before, as it is from the pre-Euro era.  When was it used?  Are there other denominations?

 

 

 

Pétange - The new and the old

Pétange has a history of using well designed communal revenue stamps.  Here are two newly acquired items showing the Pétange commune's commitment to artistic excellent!

Old Pétange Pictorial

Two Types Used in Combination

 

  10F 'TAXE COMMUNALE' with

50F 'Taxe Communale'

20 May 1981

 

New Self-Adhesive 'B' Rate

Coat of Arms

 

 Used 4 Nov 2009

Rumelange - Two types of the Miner Allegory Issue recorded

 

 

Rumelange

Miner Allegory - Two Types

'25 F' Printed (in green)

as part of the design

'25 F' Added in black,

and in a different font 

What other denominations were issued in these two styles?  I also have the 5F with the denomination printed as part of the stamp design.  Does the 5F also exist with the denomination added later in a second printing step?

Differdingen - WW2 Communale Revenue Use

Differdingen

World War 2 Occupation

French Text Stricken

Pre-WW2 2F Hotel de Ville

with 

'Taxe Communale' & 
'Differdange'

striken

Cancel:

  'Meldeamt Differdingen'

 

 

 Identity Card

29 Oct 1940

French language meticulously striken

during the first year of the WW2 occupation!

Esch-sur-Alzette --- 6.40F Miner issue recorded, used in 1953

6.40F Miner Issue

New here is the 6.40F denomination of the Esch-sur-Alzette Miner issue. The '6' of '6,40' is in bold with the stamp in blue, used here on 5 Jan 1953.

Recorded so far are the following denominations of this issue:

• Rouletted: 20F red, 50F orange, 70F Peacock blue
• Perforate:  5F violet, 6.40F blue, 10F green, 20F red

But surely there must be many other denominations.  Help add to this listing by sending me scans from your collection! 

You can read more about the Esch-sur-Alzette Miner issue here.

Luxembourg-Ville --- Scarce Surcharges on the 1923 Town View Issue

 

The Town View 

Surcharges

3.20F Surcharge 
on 1F Town View

Courtesy of Martien Zwitserloot

We often find the 1-Franc and 3-Franc (and less often the 2-Franc) Town View issue from the 1920s.  The set exists with small and large numerals.  But what we seldom find are the Town View surcharges.

Seen here from the Zwitserloot collection is the 1-Franc Town View (tall numeral) surcharged to 3.20-Francs.  The surcharge is unlisted in Barefoot, Benelux Revenues (2nd ed.), and this is the only reported 3.20-Franc surcharge on this issue.

5.00F Surcharge
on 1F Town View

 Courtesy of Martien Zwitserloot

Also very scarce is the 1-Franc Town View (tall numeral) surcharged to 5-Francs. It is listed in Barefoot, who dates it to 1936. The surcharge is also found on the 1-Franc Town View (short numeral).

It would be helpful to have information from government records of the tax rate increases that prompted surcharging this issue.  Of course, scans of uses on documents would be especially welcome!

Erpeldange - Three Coats of Arms issues reported

Luxembourg Arms

Commune

d' Erpeldange

Canton Diekirch

2F Uprated to 10F in Manuscript

Thanks to Bruno Vincent for sharing this
beautiful old communal revenue
from Erpeldange

100F

Modern Erpeldange
Coat of Arms 

50F Green
Key Type

Not as beautiful as the other two!