France 1871 Ceres 25c Blue on 1873 Giromagny Cover

France · 1871 · 25 Centimes

This listing features a 25 centimes blue Ceres stamp from the 1871 Bordeaux issue, affixed to a letter sent from Giromagny, France, in 1873. The stamp, depicting the profile of the Roman goddess Ceres, is cancelled with a distinctive large numeral postmark, '1656'.

The 1871 Ceres stamps, known as the Bordeaux issue, were provisionally printed in Bordeaux during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, when the capital was under siege, highlighting a period of national crisis and postal disruption in France.