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i have a book titled catalogue de timbres poste yvert&tellier champion 1933 this book has pictures of what i think are stamps of most all of Europe until 1933 it is not in English at all but it is hard bound can you tell me anything at all about this book. thank you for your time
Hi, Rodney.
What you have is a catalogue of postage stamps from Europe prior and up to 1933. Yvert & Tellier have a series of such books featuring postage stamps from around the world. Although I assume it's worth a lot more as the volume they produced in 1920 is out of print, it's being sold for approximately 12 Euros which is approximately $20 in the United States.
Timbre in French means stamp. Poste used as an adjective means postage in French. You will usually find the adjective describing the noun after the noun in French. De is of in French. The s is used as a suffix denoting plurality. X is used to denote plurality as well and usually found after French words ending in eau. Beaux Arts is a phrase that comes to mind as an example of this. In this phrase, beaux is the plural form of Beau and is used to denote the word fine as in "fine arts".
James
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