Café Sanka : La France Héraldique: Difference between revisions

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'''Album information :'''  

*Date of issue : 1932-7

La France Héraldique is the name of the series of albums issued by the Café Sanka company. This was the French daughter of the German Kaffee Hag company. The name Sanka was derived from Sans Caféine, meaning without caffeine. In France the brand name Hag was never used, in other countries Sanka was used as a brand of lower quality coffee, with Hag being the main brand (lik ein Holland and Belgium). In the US first Hag was introduced and later replaced by Sanka as the main quality brand.

Around 1913 Kaffee Hag started with issuing albums with collectable stamps with the arms of towns and provinces of Germany. A few years later Swiss albums followed. Due to the First World War the series stopped. In the late 1920s Hag started again in Germany and Switzerland, but now also in other countries were the coffee was sold. The Netherlands was the third country to issue heraldic albums, followed by a number of other countries. In France the company started around 1933, the exact date is not known. In all countries the series were stopped due to the Second World War. After 1945 no new albums were issued.

IThe album series La France Héraldique has a complicated history. Initially the series were intended to be issued as loose sheets, to be bound in albums per (historical) region.Therefore initially the album sheets with the arms and description of the region were issued. This was to be followed by one sheet with the nine most important cities of each province (chefs-lieux de département) within the region (each region consists of one or more provinces). Finally per province all municipal arms were to be published. However, this scheme was never completed. For each province a page with the provincial arms was issued. Later also for each département a page with the nine main towns was issued, but only of the Alsace region all arms were published.

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For France I know of the following folder

* [http://www.ngw.nl/cds/hag/fr/folder.pdf Advertising folder (4 pages)]

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The first edition of Album 1 is divided into two (large) files : |

*[http://www.ngw.nl/cds/hag/fr/I-firstedition1.pdf Introduction and provinces with arms of cities]

 

*[http://www.ngw.nl/cds/hag/I-autres2.pdf  Gascogne, Guyenne, Languedoc, Limousin, Lorraine-et-Barrois, Lyonnais, Maine, Marche, Nivernais, Orléanais, Pays-Basque, Poitou, Provence, Roussillon, Saintonge, Savoie, Tourain]

*[http://www.ngw.nl/cds/hag/fr/II-lorraine.pdf  Lorraine]

Variations in the texts are minor, as compared to for example the German, Swiss, Belgian and Dutch albums. These are listed below the table of variations in the stamps

 

'''Variations in stamps'''  

This is not a real variation. The official description mentions an arm coming from the (heraldic) left part of the shield holding a banner with a star. Both images are in accordance with the blason and thus technically identical.  

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'''Variations in the texts'''  

For both the first two albums the sequence of arms-description is reversed as compared to the bound volumes. On the sheets the omages are on the front, the description on the reverse side of the page. In the bound volume the description is on the reverse of the previous page.  

 

'''Album I '''<br>

 

'''Paris''' : number of inhabitants 7.000.000 (sheets) vs 2.906.470 (bound volume). This is the number mentioned in the description of the region. For the description of the arms of Paris, both give the 2,9 million number.  

 

'''Album II :<br>

*'''Sarre-Union'''. The text mentiones Sarre-Union, the image Saar-Union. This is also the case in album VI where the arms are shown again. The image in album II also mentions the regio as Lorraine instead of Alsace.