French Area, 1849-1949. Powerful collection on Scott Specialty pages, including France & French Offices; outstanding classics in far better than usual condition, with Ceres imperfs to 1fr, and Napoleon III most with 4 margins and a couple mint; perfed Napoleons to 5fr, 1870 Ceres complete including lower values mint, perfed also complete; Peace & Commerce also complete mint or used; issues from 1900 on about complete for the period less 1925 Philatelic Exhibition sheet; including Bordeaux, Strasbourg sheet, Le Havre, Pexip; impressive semipostals missing 5fr+5fr Orphans, and a couple others; Airpost missing a few best values; some Dues and other B-O-B present, also including Alsace Lorraine plus Offices in Crete and Turkish Empire; overall condition is F-VF, close inspection recommended. Estimate  $4,000 - 6,000. $0

French Area, Stock. 30 singles & sets on dealer pages; better items including colonies with some elusive back-of-the-book, France with *253, B20-B23, used C14 & C15, etc.; nice material, owner cat/pricing at $8,969, worth evaluation. Estimate  $1,500 - 2,000. $0