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These are Jersey revenue stamps with values in pounds ("livres") and pence so the face values here are 5p, 50p, £1, £4, £10, £25 and £50. They all have specimen overprints.
Most are general revenue stamps but the 5p stamp has an overprint for use as a Court and Bailiff Fees revenue stamp.
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Looks like that Court fee overprint is in French and Jerriais.
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Hi Smauggie,
A "juré-justicier" or "jurat" is the title of a lay judge in Jersey or Guernsey.
Here are English and French wikipedia articles about the role:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurat
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jur%C3%A9-justicier
and here's a link to the Guernsey government web site:
http://www.guernseyroyalcourt.gg/article/3089/Jurats
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Not wishing to get into a long constitutional treatise on the status of Jersey vis-a-vis the UK - sufficient to say that The States (plural) of Jersey is the legal name of the government of the island in the same way as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the "official" name here.
The official legal language of Jersey ( and incidentally Guernsey too) was (is?) French -and when I visited Jersey not too long ago, many Government buildings were labelled in French,although French ( and its Jersey dialect ) is not spoken "in the street" as it were.There are (a few) people who are able to speak the dialect and try to keep it alive - but it is not the lingua franca such as Welsh in parts of Wales, and Gaelic in parts of Scotland.
The Frenchness of Jersey is not exactly French as the French know it, but is descended from the Duchy of Normandy prior to 1066, the Channel Islands being a constituent thereof - the old ruling families descendants all having French-sounding surnames ( see the coats of arms definitive stamps of 1981 ), and most place names ( and many road names) are also French.
For those who have an interest in such things the history,laws and constitution of Jersey are fascinating - and while the inhabitants of Jersey may take exception to being referred to as British, it is one of the eccentricities that make Britain ( in it's widest sense) interesting to foreigners.
Malcolm
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Hi Brechinite,
These are Jersey revenue stamps with values in pounds ("livres") and pence so the face values here are 5p, 50p, £1, £4, £10, £25 and £50. They all have specimen overprints.
Most are general revenue stamps but the 5p stamp has an overprint for use as a Court and Bailiff Fees revenue stamp.
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re: Jersey Stamps or Fiscals ??
Looks like that Court fee overprint is in French and Jerriais.
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re: Jersey Stamps or Fiscals ??
Hi Smauggie,
A "juré-justicier" or "jurat" is the title of a lay judge in Jersey or Guernsey.
Here are English and French wikipedia articles about the role:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurat
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jur%C3%A9-justicier
and here's a link to the Guernsey government web site:
http://www.guernseyroyalcourt.gg/article/3089/Jurats
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01:56:12am
re: Jersey Stamps or Fiscals ??
Not wishing to get into a long constitutional treatise on the status of Jersey vis-a-vis the UK - sufficient to say that The States (plural) of Jersey is the legal name of the government of the island in the same way as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the "official" name here.
The official legal language of Jersey ( and incidentally Guernsey too) was (is?) French -and when I visited Jersey not too long ago, many Government buildings were labelled in French,although French ( and its Jersey dialect ) is not spoken "in the street" as it were.There are (a few) people who are able to speak the dialect and try to keep it alive - but it is not the lingua franca such as Welsh in parts of Wales, and Gaelic in parts of Scotland.
The Frenchness of Jersey is not exactly French as the French know it, but is descended from the Duchy of Normandy prior to 1066, the Channel Islands being a constituent thereof - the old ruling families descendants all having French-sounding surnames ( see the coats of arms definitive stamps of 1981 ), and most place names ( and many road names) are also French.
For those who have an interest in such things the history,laws and constitution of Jersey are fascinating - and while the inhabitants of Jersey may take exception to being referred to as British, it is one of the eccentricities that make Britain ( in it's widest sense) interesting to foreigners.
Malcolm
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