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Today I have some nice stamps from PRC and Pakistan... The Chinese stamps were all stocked in a small envelope , and were bought perhaps in the end of 2012.. it was the last time I bought Chinese stamps.. during 2011 I bought large quantities of these stamps, complete years, etc.. One of my main goals is to end the 50's.. extraordinary stamps with the extra of ultra satisfaction...! every time I buy stamps from PRC I get a great deal of pleasure because it was from the beginning one of my Target countries (Yes, the pajama story--- an earlier post---!!) ...

Let us start chronologically , as usual lately...

This first series I present today doesn't have nothing special, in fact it is the weak point of PRC stamps I have today.. Yet, there is one fact I must remind you.. this is another one of the many stamps of the Master Designer Sun Chuanzhe .. this man designed almost all of the stamps from 1949 to 1953 and continued for many years after that , always designing stamps.. it is considered the major Chinese stamp designer and the first one to have International recognition... for me , and this is a personal opinion, he leaves a mark in almost of his greatest stamps.. it is the characteristic Currency label, as you can see in this stamp.. look in all the other China stamps i will present today, and compare.. they all are designed by Sun Chuanzhe..

This series is a rather simple one , simple design and Offset Printing.. One other aspect I want to highlight in the work of this Artist  is his great Versatility..he designed very simple stamps like this, some more complicated, portraits, landscapes and even some very complicated and elaborated historical stamps with guns , tanks, flags, portraits, everything in the same stamp..it was without doubts a complete designer, like many , many others who make our Hobby possible...

1952 "International Child Protection Conference, Vienna." (2) [Des (Sun Chuanzhe)][Offset (Shanghai Huadong Revenue Printing Works)] Sc(136,137)

This series commemorates the presence of Chinese soldiers in the War in Korea.. all the Technical data of these stamps say that We are in presence of a Recess Printing but  my fingers tell me otherwise... the paper is very thin and I can't feel a thing , in either of the sides of the paper , it could be a piece of common white paper..!!!. these are for sure fake stamps..!.It was usual in Chinese stamps of those days to find mixed offset/Recess stamps, with the vignette printed in offset and the lettering in recess... this is not the case.. I must believe in the technical data I get in catalogs and internet sites, and they all tell me that these are recess printed stamps.. I present them the same way.. It is curious that only today , when I was classifying them , I noted this detail... well , apparently I've been Robbed..!!.

I've got one or two extra's that were already in the collection.. i am going to examine them and I'll let you know what I find in a future post...

1952 "2nd Anniversary  of Chinese Volunteer Force in Korea." (4) [Des (Sun Chuanzhe)][Recess (Shanghai People's Printing Works)] Sc(171,...,174)

Beautiful stamps.... nothing to say..! [Ah.. the stamps have the same size , of course , this is a image bonding and sometimes it doesn't work properly...]

1953 "135th Birth Anniversary of Karl Marx." (2) [Des (Sun Chuanzhe)][Engr (Liu Guotong)][Recess (Beijing People's Printing Works)] Sc(183,184)

China must be along with North Korea , the champions of ' Flag Presence in stamps '.. there are flags and people cheering in almost every stamp.. it is a curious record..the other stamps are fake but these ones are originals for sure... beautiful stamps and nice printing...

1953 "Seventh National Labor Union Conference" (2) [Des (Sun Chuanzhe)][Engr (Lin Wenyi)][Recess (BPPW)] Sc(185,186)

There are two important but well known facts related with this series... the first is that  exists another issue with the same designs but different colors.. the second series is much more valuable and scarce, of course.. the second detail is related only to the first stamp, the red one.. there are some Chinese labels in the bottom left of the design.. in some of these stamps a word was added .. the small arrow in the picture above indicates the extra Chinese 'letters'...it is another beautiful series where Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong appear to give more strength to the series..

1953 "35th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution" (4) [Des (Sun Chuanzhe)][Engr (Liu Guotong)][Recess (BPPW)] Sc(194,...,197)

PAKISTAN

stamps from the last lot I bought in December, with stamps of India and Pakistan..

This is the first series from the Independent Pakistan.. The series show us monuments and buildings from Pakistan.. (1)Assembly building 2) Karachi Airport 3) Lahore Fort).. the fourth stamps show us the Crescent Moon and Stars surrounded by a Floral Ornament and in the center Arabic Labels.. this 1r stamp was designed by A. Chugthai and was beautifully engraved by De La Rue , London... There is a slight disagreement between SG and Sc referring to the perforations... there are two perforations in this series ... the An values and the r value.. in addition to this aspect , there are 1r stamps with other perforation, much more valuable.. The two catalogs give different values for the initial perforations and also for the less common 1r...My 1r stamp , and I've got 5 more, has 11.5 of perforation.. 

1948 "Independence" (4) [Des (A. Chugthai / 1r)][Recess (De La Rue , London)] Sc(20,...,23)

this stamp is from a series of two, with the same beautiful design...It  commemorates the first Indian Postage stamp....

1952 "Cent of "Scinde Dawk" Issue of India" )2) [Recess (De La Rue, London)] Sc(64)

The stamps of this period immediately after the Independence are good examples of how a stamp should be.. nice papers, beautiful designs and good printings.. once more we have here stamps commemorating the Independence , highlighting Monuments and Natural Landscapes..1) Kagghan Valley 2)Jahangir's Mausoleum 3) Mountain Gilgit 4) Badshahi Masjid 5) Tea plantation 6) Cotton Plantation 7) Jute Field & River

1954 "7th Anniversary of the Independence" (7) [Recess (De La Rue, London)] Sc(66,...,72)

To clime a mountain is one crazy thing , but to clime one of the highest mountains on Earth , defying Nature in one of it's most extreme Climates, it is a Heroic achievement .. 

1954 "Conquest of K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen)" (1) [Recess (De La Rue,London)] Sc(65)

1957 "Centenary of Struggle for Independence (Indian Mutiny)" (2) [Des (Mr. Ahsan)][Litho (De La Rue, London)] Sg(90,91)

some traces of the past are remembered in this series.. 

1963 "Archaeological Series." (4) [Des (Ashfaq Ghani)][Recess] Sc(180,...,183)

1964 "Death Bicentenary of Shah Abdul Latif of Bhit" (1) [Des (Ashfaq Ghani)][Intaglio (De La Rue,London)] Sc(208)

During this post , I had to interrupt the writing several times due to diverse situations...Sorry for the last part of the post where I was simply ' not in the mood' to write, but I had to finish it ... Sorry....

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Parcels

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Today I will return to the Belgium stamps.. I have still plenty to enter the collection  and I like them very much.. 

I will start with some stamps from King Leopold I .. Until now I have only presented King Leopold II stamps , because the reigning period (with postage stamps, of course..) was much greater than in the case of his predecessor..1849 to 1865 (King Leopold I) and 1867 to 1905 (King Leopold II)...

Let us start with the last series of King Leopold I , from 1865 .. One important fact that should be highlighted is that the stamps were printed in two different kind's of paper .. Thin (1865) and Thick (1866)  papers...in each case the same values are repeated (10c,20c,30c,40c,1Fr).. each one of this values have a different frame and Vignette design's ... ( it is curious to see the similarity between these frame designs and the one's from the Romanian 1872 Paris and Bucharest Prints.. there are differences , of course , but the overall simplicity of the design is there...)..another important aspect for the distinction of the two different issues of these stamps is the perforation .. in the Thin paper we have Perf 14.5x14 and in the thick paper we've got Perf 15...

The second stamp is only presented as a curiosity , because in the end it is equal to the first.. Yes originally it was a blue 20c Thick paper.. what happened to it ?? I don't know but i can speculate .. perhaps a prolonged exposure to sun light (but in this case , shouldn't the Postmark be also somehow vanished..?? Perhaps it was marked after the stamp was already in this condition..??).. I have two more old stamps of other origins and countries , with the same problem..both were cataloged as being Ultramarine blue , but this one was simply blue.. I think this is not important , but...)

All the 4 stamps presented are from Thick paper.. the last stamp, judging only by the sensibility of my fingers should be  a thin paper stamp, but the perforation clearly state  otherwise..I'm not in the ' point ' yet, I have much to learn with this 'sensibility thing' ..

the last two stamps , are in fact two shades of Grey 10c Thick paper..

 1865/1866 "King Leopold I" (10) [Engr (De La Rue)][Typo (Brussels)] Sc(19,19,18,18)

These beautiful stamps are Train Parcel stamps ... for those who don't know , the study of these stamps is highly developed by Belgium and foreign Philatelists..stamps for this purpose begin to be issued in 1879 and I think that in the 1980's they were still issued...

The initial thing to be known is that the Belgium railway was commissioned to transport Post parcels.. these parcels could be delivered in a train station, a postal office or a Telegraph office..  for each of these cases , one proper cancellation was used.. in the train station, these large cancellations were used together with hexagonal Marks.. in the Telegraph station Octagonal marks were used...

As we can see , all of these stamps were cancelled in train stations, being the lemon 80c stamp (Beautiful, beautiful...!!) marked with an hexagonal mark..

So, a person carries the parcel until the train station , where a small piece of bureaucracy was attached to the parcel with some of these stamps and corresponding cancellations... 

As i said before , the first series of these stamps was issued in 1879 , the 2nd in 1882 , the 3rd in 1895 and these stamp are from the 4th series , of 1902/1914.. the 3rd and 4th series share exactly the same designs.. however , there is a distinctive difference between the two series.. in the 3rd , the Designer's name appears below the inferior frame..in the 4th this is omitted..

there are some strange errors in the date of some of these cancellations..(on is from 17.. and other is from 2014(?)..) .. after a quick look at the stamps we see that the Fr values have a different design , with a winged train wheel in the center.. 

1902/1914 "Parcel Train Stamps" (20) [Des (Poortman)][Engr (Poortman)][Typo (Malines)] Sc(Q29,Q30,Q33,Q34,Q36,Q38,Q39,Q40,Q41,Q42,Q43,Q44,Q45)

I don't know if the designer is Maurice Poortman (it is possible , because he retired in 1943 , so he should have 20 or so Years when he designed these stamps.. I have to ask somebody for this info...)

these are stamps from 1915 and represent important buildings and constructions in Brussels and other cities and important dates in Belgium History.. The 2nd stamp is showed here just as a comparison with the 3rd (it is already in the collection and appeared in an earlier post about Belgium stamps..), because I think that are visible the differences in the designing or coloring of the vignette.. in the 2nd stamp the sky and the clouds appear more highlighted and the building with a more light black or black grey .. in the 3rd stamp the sky and clouds are faded and the building in a bright black.. i think this is notorious ( together with the beautiful Crown Perfin of the 2nd..)..

the 5th (65c)  was put together with these stamps but it was issued five years later , in 1920..  

1915/1919  "Various Designs" (7) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(116,118,118,117,139,119) 

the Recess Printing was latter made in Haarlem..

here we have a nice pair of a stamp from 1919 with two parallel perfins (.N.C.N.) .. there were two printings of this stamp, differing in the sheet composition(10 stamps in the first , 100 in the 2nd..) and in the dimension of the stamp, with a very small difference.. I cannot detect these small differences in dimension, with the simple tools I use.. the stamps from the first printing are much more scarce..

1919 "Le Perron De Liege" (1) [Recess (Enschedé & Sons, Haarlem)] Sc(123)

These are stamps of one of the several King Albert I Definitive series...At first , I had some problems finding the correct match of colors with the colors in the Catalogs.. Finally , I saw that the color in the catalog is the color in the small square of the Value numeral...for instance, the third stamp appear in the catalogs as Bright Blue , but the stamp itself is a grayish blue or Dull grey blue or something like that.. only that small square presents the bright Blue that we are after...The name of the Designer and engraver George Montenez , appears below the inferior Frame..

1921/1925 "King Albert I" (8) [Des (George Montenez)][Engr (George Montenez)][Recess (Enschedé & Sons, Haarlem)] Sc(162,...,167)

This is a complete series that present's us paintings of Kings  Leopold I and II and of King Albert I.. I must tell that for me this stamps are a small disillusion..before I have them , I saw some detailed pictures of one of the stamps , highlighting  the qualities of the engraver... I was not expecting that in reality the stamps were printed in a very thin paper that doesn't match the quality of the engraver work.. it deserved a thicker and better paper...

1930 "Centenary of the Independence" (3) [Engr (Jean Debast)][Recess] Sc(218,...,220)

The first three stamps , again from a King Albert I Definitive series, show us another excellent work of Jean Debast in the engraving.. now I have just one stamp missing in the collection , the 10Fr , of course...The 4th stamp is from the King Albert I Mourning series...

1931/1932 "King Albert I" (8) [Engr (Jean Debast)][Recess] Sc(229,232,233)

1934 "King Albert I Mourning Series" (1) [Photo (Malvaux, Brussels)] Sc(257)

I have presented here the first stamp, but this one seems to have a small difference in the coor.. not significant... these are stamps from 1934 and they commemorate the Brussels International  Exhibition...nothing to say about them...

1934 "Brussels International Exhibition" (4) [Photo] Sc(258,259,261)

We have reached the point in time where there is not much to talk about the different series that show up at our front.. Maybe that's one of the main reason for my preference for stamps from 1900 to 1930.. but it is natural that Commemorative stamps begin to appear more often than they do in earlier days...

first we have a pair of a series from 1947..

1947 "International  Film and Belgian Fine Arts Festival" (1) [Photo] Sc(373)

1951 "AIR MAIL" (2) [Photo (Malvaux, Brussels)] Sc(C13)

Complete series commemorating the International Exhibition of 1958...

1958 "Brussels International Exhibition,1958" (4) [Des (E. Meert)][Engr (L. Janssens)][Recess] Sc(500,...,503)

Perhaps someday in this Year of 2015 i will make another post with Belgium stamps, now with emphasis in the Parcel Train stamps.. I've got many and diverse...

For now , it's all, until next time

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Prince and King

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Today I have a post with a small number of words (if compared to the last one...) and many beautiful stamps.. only some remarks about the Definitive series presented..

In another earlier post about Romanian Stamps, I talked about the feeling of Caution when we deal with definitive series from the classic and Semi-classical periods..they can be of difficult classification, with many parameters to get our attention ; the only definitive series I show today doesn't present this great diversity ,so it is with greater confidence than last time , that I show my results... the commemorative and Welfare series doesn't present any 'issue' , that I know of..!

Let us start with a series that was on my 'Must Have ' list... 

The Designs of Jean Pompilian are magnificent , the recess Printing is very good and the result is one of the best series of stamps I know ...the series appear here with 11 stamps because it includes the 25b green variety..
1906 "40 Years' Rule of Prince and King Carol I" (11) [Des (Jean Pompilian)][Recess (Bradbury wilkinson & Co. Ltd , London)] Sc(176,...,185)

some stamps from the series commemorating the Jubilee of the Kingdom of Romania...
1906 "25th Anniversary of the Kingdom" (10) [Des (Jean Pompilian)][Recess (Bradbury wilkinson & Co. Ltd, London)] Sc(186,186,188,189)

Now , one more 1906 series , in this case , a welfare Fund series... curiously the tax applied to these stamps doesn't appear as usual in the stamp itself.. in the next series I   I will present , the something happen's..
This tax was for Charitable Purposes..
1906 "Welfare Fund" (4) [Typo (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd, England)] Sc(B13,...,B16)

another welfare series , this time from 1907; nothing to comment...
1907 "Welfare Fund" (4) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co. Ltd, England)] Sc(B17,...,B20)

These are stamps from the King Carol I 1st Definitive series.. there were 3 series with similar designs , but are easily recognized with some experience with these stamps... the stamps from this series have no Wmk are Recess Printed and could have perf 11.5, 13.5 or a Mix (11.5x13.5 or 13.5x11.5)... 
I will make just a small stop in the conversation about this series , just to say that from my early days as a collector that I adopted a different way of making my notes when classifying perforations.. Every stamp has a smaller size , or in width or in lenght... I always note my stamps , when speaking of perforations, like this..
1st value : smaller size 2nd value : larger size (it is just a different way of doing the same thing.. in the end the information that I don't get is if the stamp is horizontally or vertically oriented.. I don't need this information....
returning now to our stamps , we have four groups of stamps where I have used my Perf notation as an example..
1st)2nd) 11.5x13.5 [in the 1st group I have a 5b yellowish green, a 25b with a different shade of blue than the one I've got already in the collection and the 40b Blueish Green and Yellowish green Varieties..][The 2nd group have 3 stamps of 50b, the first two are the Yellowish Orange and Orange and the third is a stamp issued in 1918 , with the color dull red...]
3rd)13.5x11.5 [the first stamp is a 10b Deep Carmine Rose , the 2nd a 40b Yellow Green and the third a 1L Unused Brown stamp with excellent detail..]
4th) 13.5 [a 10b Carmine Rose and a 50b Yellow Orange]
As usual I used two catalogs to make my classifications, Scott world and SG... in this case the detail is much greater with SG, that gives us a detailed view of perforations and colors in this beautiful series...(I don't know other Scott catalogs then this World 2009 version.. maybe there are another more specialized versions -- I'm sure they exist---..) 
1908 "King Carol I" (27) [Des (Jean Pompilian)][Recess (Government Printing Works, Bucharest)] Sc(207,210,211,211,213,213,214,208,211,215,208,213) [the Sc 214 is issued in 1918]

Unfortunately , the 40b value is missing .. this is a series that has one interesting particularity for me.. I didn't know that the 3b,15b,50b,1L,2L were designed by the great stamp designer Ludovic Bassarab... I have to make an update on the post about him in my other blog... (the data I have from Romania don't show the designers of this series...)
1913 "Acquisition of Southern Dobruja" (10) [Designer (Ludovic Bassarab 3b,15b,50,1L,2L)][Typo] Sc(230,...,235,237,...,239)


Ok,there was not so many talk as usual.. the fact that I went to a dinner with some friends last night must not be strange to this... Our mind keep us young but what was natural 20 years ago, has a strange influence in our body's  today...and today , 'thinking gives me a headache'..!

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War among Brothers

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I have this small lot of Mexican stamps 'for a long time', and the reason why the classification isn't already done is simple.. after a first 'in loco' view , I thought that the stamps were in very bad conditions and the will to classify them seems to be lacking... two days ago, I remembered them and I went to see the catalogs for some info... then I saw that some of the pictures in the Catalogs were also of bad condition stamps.. so I thought.. "Let's do it!!".. anyway , there must exist some new or nearly perfect stamps, so I am asking you to keep in mind that these are "Bad condition" stamps....

The classical period and the emissions  of the start of the XX century , until the 20's are like in other countries forged in Battle, with new emissions and overprints always responding to the Up's and down's of the War and the civil war...it is a fantastic period with many catalog pages full of constantly renewed overprints... 

It is necessary to understand the History involved in the creation of some of these stamps... so I will post some History Background taken from an old catalog.. and there We can see that even in those days , the world was already a small place..

The first Mexican series of stamps appears in 1856 and we have to know that the stamps were 'handstamped' with the name of one of the 56 districts of the country.. this is another fact that will evolve with time with the Overprint of the stamps , in 1868 (already in another period of history...) , with the number of the district and the last two digits of the Year... I have some stamps from this period but in very bad conditions , perhaps another time they will be presented...

From these period , I have no stamps to present...meanwhile , beginning in 1865 , the Revolutionary movement was already in action...

Here appears the first stamp I have to present .. and it is a stamp of the 1st Mexico President Benito Juarez..curiously it is in fine shape (except a small fault in the perforation..) and in General good condition..

You can see the Overprints of District and by the number presented we know that the stamp was issued in 1880.. one more time I 'm not certain if this is a Ultramarine blue or just another blue,..the fact is the Ultramarine variety , issued in 1880 is more valuable that the current blue one..

We can see also that the left margin is imperforated , what makes this a very strange stamp..but beautiful!! and one thing for sure , there are many Beautiful designs and great Recess Printing's in some of these Mexican stamps..this series was printed in two different kinds of paper , one thick (1879/1880) and the other thin (1882) ... and as you know I'm not the best person judging paper qualities, but the difference in these stamps and in those about to come , is so great that even I can do this distinction clearly..(because the thick paper is really thick!!!..) the number of stamps issued is diverse for each case (8 for the thick and 15 for the thin paper)

1879/1882 "Benito Juarez" (23,1) [Des (De La Peña)][Recess (Government Printing Works, Mexico City)] Sc(126) 

 These are stamps from a series of 1895, that I call "Transporting the Mail".. the question about the Ultramarine blue I have made above , is now responded with this beautiful 5c Bright ultramarine blue stamp...
in the first 3 designs  a Postal office Employee walk with the mail at his back.. 

the 5c represents the Statue of Cuauhtémoc and in the other 2 , a mail carriage is represented (beautiful vignette and frame..)

This is a series known by the many possible perforations and combinations of different Perforations... I must confess that I didn't pay much attention to this detail (but I should, because the cv are very different , sometimes..) and I only give the stamps their general Scott code...

1895 "Transporting the Mail" (13,5,5) [Des (J.M. Donald)][Recess (GPW,Mexico City)] Sc(242,243,244,246,248,252)

two beautiful stamps , representing the Juanacatlán Falls and a view over the Popocatépetl mountain.. In the 1p stamp you can see the 'Handmade' Overprint  with 'Oficial'... this series contains 4 different designs , the first with a coat of Arms, 2md and 3rd are presented and the 4th , a 5P stamp showing the Mexico city Cathedral..

I have also some of the coat of Arms values but I don't choose them to present today and in the end they had a place in this post.. (I choose the stamps before knowing and studying the catalogs.. next time..!) 

1899 "Coats of Arms and views of Mexico" (10,4) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co.)] Sc(301,O57)

 These are stamps from the "Centenary of the first movement of Independence" series of 1910..they represent the major figures connected to the Independence movement and it is the last series before 

 the start of the Civil War, and as a result it is one of the most Overprinted series of Mexican Philately, because as I said before many overprints tried to follow the needs and changes of an history that evolved at a 

weekly or monthly base ; it is a series again very perfectly designed and with beautiful frames.. 

The last stamp presented  show us Hidalgo declaring the Independence..

The personalities presented are : 1) Josefa Ortiz  2) Leona Vicario 3) Lopez Rayon 4) Juan Aldama 5) Miguel Hidalgo

6) Ignacio Allende 7) Epigmenio Gonzalez 8) Mariano Abasolo

1910 "Centenary of the 1st Movements of Independence" (11,11) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co.)] Sc(310,...,318)

"On May 25 1911 , President Porfirio Diaz who had been a dictator since 1876, was forced by a Popular movement to resign, and the Liberal Francisco Madero succeeded him as President." 

And the civil War started , with subsequent confusion all around the Mexican Post Office...

The  Sonora district start to issue their own stamps, there are overprints for all these movements , as you can see more ahead.. The so called Constitutional Government had 'handstamped' overprints and they are so many different one's , that SG , for example, has 8 pages only for this subject... I have some of these also, but I leave them for another time , again...

I put here , side by side , the Two Movements that were born in 1914 (of course , you can read the texts , clicking them...) , because I want to use just one stamp , the 5c Hidalgo 1910 stamp with some of the most common overprints and surcharges of these period (without counting those of the last period..)

1st : Monogram of the movement Villa-Zapata.. (there was a little quantity of these stamps available , so there is a huge quantity of forgeries available.. perhaps , some of these... and there are several types of them...I have to say that any of the overprints and surcharges present in this civil War period over this 1910 series are quite inexpensive , but when they appear over older series ( and they could exist over stamps from 1899 to 1910) the cv could be very high...

2nd: Monogram of the Carranza Movement..could also appear over stamps from 1899 to 1910...

3rd : Villa -Zapata Monogram surcharged with a 1916 25c 'Barril' (name given to these kind of surcharge..) that could be issued in Brown, Black, Green or Red...

4th: Carranza Monogram with a 'Silver currency' Overprint in blue.. These 1916 overprints can be Vertical or horizontal, and issued in Blue , Red or black...

5th : simple 5c 1910 stamp with 'silver currency' Overprint..

6th : simple 5c 1910 stamp with 20c Brown 'Barril' Surcharge

7th : simple 5c 1910 stamp with Green 25c surcharge

8th : simple 5c 1910 stamp with brown (with better visibility...)  20c 'Barril' Surcharge..

.... As you can see this is a small Philatelic and Historic world of detail ... I think that chaotic and rich are two words that define very well all this period from 1914 to 1917 (it is curious to see that this period of time correspond to the WWI..) 

Sc(459,488,580,544)(521,579,586,579)

We will find again in this series , the distinction of a varied group of papers due to it's thickness... it's relatively easy to separate the thick paper from the thin , but it is not easy to see the limits of the 'Medium paper' (where ends the Thick , and where ends the thin paper...).. the perforation here , could help in this distinction , because it is different for some of the paper varieties.. The personalities represented in this series are : 1) Ignacio Zaragoza 2) Ildefonso Vasquez  3) J.M. Pino Suarez 4) Jesus Carranza 10) F. I. Madero 20) Belizario Dominguez 30) Aquiles Serdan

The two varieties of the 1c stamp are presented and there could be or not some difference in the 20c stamp (between 'red brown' and 'rose lake'..) and the last stamp is the Black variety , and a 'grey brown'  one exists too. The 5c Ultramarine Blue stamp is missing..

1917 "Portraits" (10,8,8) [Des (F. Fernandez)][Recess (GPW, Mexico City)] Sc(608,609,610,611,612,614,615,615a,617)

three very beautiful stamps  from three distinct series...

1st) 1923 " 'Special Delivery Stamp (Express)' "[Recess (GPW, Mexico city) Sc(E2)

2nd) 1921 "Centenary of the Declaration of Independence" (2,2,2) [Des (A. Barron)][Engr (E. Valadez)][Recess (GPw, Mexico City)] Sc(632)

3rd) 1928 "Air Mail / Eagle Issue" (4,1) [Recess (GPW, Mexico City)] Sc(C3)

The first two stamps new designs and values to a series already issued without Wmk.. this time some values are issued with Wmk and with the addition of these two stamps...

1923 "Monuments" (8,8) [Recess (GPW, Mexico City)] Sc(648,649)

The last stamp is a reissue with new values and colors of stamps of a series from 1915.. Sc(cannot find it now...)

1931 "4th Centenary of the Founding of Puebla" (1) [Recess (GPW, Mexico City)] Sc(675)

I hope that you all like this post and above all that Mexican Stamps could be one of your future Priorities..Really Good Classical and Semi-classical stamps...!

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