COVER N. 735 - FRANCE

Postmark: Salon Paris Philex 2026 - la nature à Paris - La Poste Paris 11.06.2026

Posted on the 11th June;  Received on the 25th June 2026

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NFT stamps... an absolute mystery to me. 

I bought the first Portuguese  NFT stamp and readily made a mess of all the registering process right away, so when I noticed that Eric had kindly sent me  a cover with one of the La Poste NFT stamps issued in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the publication in France of  Le Petit Prince, (pour laquelle que je te remercie enomerment, Eric) I began to get a bit shaky...

Contrary to the Portuguese stamp, though, the 8€ NFT stamp illustrated with an image of the Little Prince flying his own aircraft, has a QR code inscribed on it. Reading the QR code, returns a 3D-ish animation of the image on the stamp, so at least I was able to get to this part, which is a lot more than I was able to do with the Portuguese stamp.

As far as I think I understand, NFT stamps should be "stored" online but this is where I have no idea how to progress in order to create one's own "album". Maybe one day, i'll understand it, even though I think I cannot recuperate my original Portuguese NFT stamp which is living somewhere in a digital limbo....

Anyway, the Petit Prince NFT on the cover is part of a set of four single stamp souvenir sheets (4 x 8€ - NFTimbre 8.1-8.4)) issued on 19MAY2026, celebrating, as above mentioned, the 80th anniversary of the French publication of Le Petit Prince, by Galimard, in 1946. The stamps are illustrated with an image that is essentially a frame from the video accessible through the QR code inscribed on their surface.

The physical stamp was cancelled in the course of the Paris Philex 2026 philatelic show with the First Day Postmark of a Lettre Verte stamp that was issued during the event, on 11JUN2026, as the 2026 Philex CNEP (Chambre syndicale française des Négociants et Experts en Philatélie) issue, dedicated to the theme of the event: La nature à Paris (Nature in Paris).

As I was able to read on the internet, CNEP has been  issuing souvenir sheets with a lettre verte stamp  for each of philatelic shows it organises or participates in, since 1980.