Uruguay Stamps [2nd Post]

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This will be a brief post with some new entries from Uruguay... the period covered by this post goes from 1895 to 1930 and it has a great influence of the British and American Printings, specially from Waterlow and Sons, London...As usual, I don't have many complete series, but the stamps presented of each one of them are enough for some 'talking'...

These are stamps from a definitive series issued from 1895 to 1898...there is no special subject in the designs of this series, so I usually call these series as "Various Designs"... in the series , besides, trains, ships , buildings and a "Gaucho" painting , there are illustrations of Mercury, Ceres, the Montevideo Cathedral and fortress , coats of Arms and Amazon's... they are indeed 22 beautiful stamps...it is a very good engraving and printing work from Waterlow...very nice series..

1895/1898 "Various Designs" (22) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(108,109,110,111,112,,113,114,119)

This is a beautiful stamp commemorating the Argentine Revolution or the May Revolution of 1810... I could not find the relation of this revolution , with the illustration itself... as you can see in a more detailed view of the stamp , it represents a Centaur ...(I guess I'm not so familiar with South America History..)   it is a beautiful illustration and a nice postmark as well...there is still a blue 5c stamp with similar design missing..

1910 "Argentine Revolution" (2) [Des (C.M. Herrera)][Recess (South American Bank Note Company, Buenos Aires)] Sc(182)

Another work of Waterlow commemorating the End of the Devastating WWI..it is normal that the stamp represents the statue of Liberty in New York, because the US still are one of the known ends of the "River of Hope" (people who search for better conditions , peace and freedom always sail this Mighty River..) 

1919 "Peace Commemoration" (6) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(217)

Finally a complete series!!.. A commemoration of José Gervásio Artigas , the National Hero of Uruguay and Father of the Nationality...in fact , the main subject of the series is the unveiling of a Monument to Artigas...
1923 "Monument to Artigas" (3) [Recess (Waterlow and sons Limited, London)] Sc(264,...,266)

I don't have many stamps of this nice series, but before I present them I must say that there were five different issues of the same design... they are all presented in the image above where you can see that despite the similarity of the illustration, all of them differ in the presence or not of several different labels below the bottom frame...
1st) no imprint below the bottom frame 2nd) 'A. Barreiro Y Ramos' Imprint below the bottom frame 3rd) 'Imprenta Nacional' imprint at the bottom center 4th) 'Imp. Nacional' at the bottom Center 5th) 'Imp.Nacional' at the bottom right.
All of these reprints are accompanied by small variations in the size of the stamps (I must say one more time that the images don't reflect these size differences...) and in the number of values of each one of them...

As You can see , the main illustration represents a South American bird, very common in Uruguay...it is known as the 'Chilean Lapwing'...
1st Group) 1923 "Chilean Lapwing" (12) [Litho (A. Barreiro Y Ramos SA, Montevideo)] Sc(269,271)
2nd, 3rd Groups) 1924 "Chilean Lapwing" (14) [Litho (A. Barreiro Y Ramos,SA,Montevideo)] Sc(286,286,287,288,289,292,293)
4th Group) 1925 "Chilean Lapwing" (6) [Litho (National Printing works)] Sc(309,314)
5th Group) 1926 "Chilean Lapwing" (7) [Litho (NPW)] Sc(317,322)
6th Group) 1927 "Chilean Lapwing" (6) [Litho (NPW)] Sc(336,338)

Single stamp series commemorating the Conquest of 'Las Missiones'...the illustration show us scenes from a Battle (I think...)  , a Map displaying the Geographical situation and at the center a portrait of General Fructuoso Rivera... this time all the engraving and printing was work of ABNC New York...
1928 "Conquest of Las Missiones" (1) [Recess (ABNC,NY)] Sc(349)

In the previous post about Uruguay stamps ,I showed another stamp (the 8c Ultramarine Blue) of this series.. now I have this beautiful stamp (identical illustration and design)  from , I'm sure, one of the first series commemorating Football (Soccer in US)..in fact ,the stamp commemorates the Uruguayan victories in the 1924 and 1928 World Cups...I leave here a video with the Uruguayan view about those glorious days in the Kingdom of Football (In spanish..)
1928 "Uruguayan Football victories" (3) [Recess (A. Barreiro Y Ramos)] Sc(388)

It is now time to present a "rare" , strange and beautiful series from 1930...the stamps are very affordable and common ,but the series is rare because it was one of the few stamp series where there was Peace!!! peace among Printing Companies!! it was a rare phenomenon specially in South America,for years ground for fierce battles between companies...this time , the 16 stamps of the series were divided by 3 of the Main Printing companies in the world : Waterlow and sons,London (7), Bradbury Wilkinson ,London (7)  and ABNC,NY (2)..
The series commemorates the Centenary of the Uruguayan Independence and has 12 different designs... I only have 3 of these 16 stamps , but fortunately I have one of each company...Great Series.. Must Have it!!!
1930 "Centenary of Independence" (16) [Recess (Bradbury Wilkinson & Co., London 1c)(ABNC,NY 2c)(Waterlow and sons Limited, London 5c)] Sc(395,396,398)

I hope you keep following the beautiful Uruguayan Philately and wish you some very nice time collecting stamps...

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A Bad work?!!..

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In this post I chose to show some stamps from Uruguay...it is a "first time" in the Blog , because I don't have a great number of these stamps (perhaps in the future, some more will came out...) , not for a "like or not" problem , but because they don't appear very often here in Portugal, and my attention was not in this direction...Now , after a closer view , these stamps seem to me very appealing and with several points of interest... The continuous presence of Waterlow and Sons in Uruguay stamps, until the 50's , at least, is one of these interesting points with the usual well accomplished stamps...however , Waterlow is not , as we will see, equal to quality.. some of the stamps I will show are among the worst Waterlow stamps I have seen...

Let us start with a series from 1904..

I cannot find a link between these stamps, some of them representing Allegorical figures, other presenting livestock , Artigas or a numeral... the stamps are shown in all catalogs as part of a series, so there must be a meaning to this.. it is a [Litho] printed series, with beautiful designs and a single stamp is missing ...other of the interesting aspects of Urugayan stamps is the large quantity ,in the early days, of stamps representing Mythological and allegorical elements.. Mercury , for example is largely represented in several beautiful series and watermarks and a collector of this topic should study carefully Uruguayan Philately... I have some spare stamps from this series , but will not present them , because there is nothing different about them... 

1904 "Various Designs" (7) [Litho (School of Artes and Crafts, Montevideo)] Sc(160,...,165) 

These are stamps showing José Gervásio Artigas, considered to be the Father of the Uruguayan Nation...like in other stamps from South and Central America, the Turbulent History of those days, with war or civil War on many of the Territories under Spanish and Portuguese Influence, is well reflected with many definitive and commemorative series honoring the several Heroes of the struggle for Independence... Artigas never achieved the Honor of being President or other high Society rank , but his leadership was decisive to the appearance of Uruguay as an Independent Nation in 1825...He lived his last years in exile in Paraguay and died in 1850, but his name was brought to the status of National Hero , after the Independence...

This series is [Recess] printed by Waterlow , but this work, as I said above , is in my opinion very weak.. the Portrait design is very poor, with Artigas eyes being strangely undefined affecting enormously the final result here shown...the Engraver did also a poor work.. (it could be much better..) .. if We consider the Status that Waterlow has accustomed us , this must be one of the Worst works of the British company...this 'eye's' problem is so strange that I had to study a little deeper the Life of Artigas.. perhaps he had an eye problem, or an injury during his life, but that is not the case, and I discover that he had normal eyes like almost everybody.. So, why this Design??? It is really strange!..

This series is divided into two parts...the first, this one, is [recess] printed and the other is [Typo] printed... the first one has 6 stamps (it is completed) and the 2nd has 13 stamps, divided into Sub series (Types I and II) of 7 (Type I) and 6 (Type II)...

1910 "José Gervásio Artigas" (6) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons Limited, London)] Sc(187,...,192)

These are some stamps from the [Typo] series... we have to talk now about the two types available...the difference is easily recognized , even with these 400ppp scans...

Type 1] The background lines of the Central portrait are very close to each other..

Type 2] The Background lines of the Central Portrait have a larger distance among them...

There is yet another difference , that could exist in the two different types.. it has something to do with the position and size of the currency numerals.. but I have only stamps of one of these two types , so I don't show  or talk anything about this...

I have to tell that the Sc World catalog is insufficient , because it doesn't list almost any of the many color shades existing in this series... I will not present the codes for this series...

1912/1918 "José Gervasio Artigas" (13) [Typo] 

This is another of those Allegorical series , where we can see Liberty bringing Peace, in the form of an Olive branch , to Uruguay...nice stamps, with Designing work of  J. Debert...

1918 "Promulgation of the constitution" (2) [Litho (National Printing Works)] Sc(214,215)

Here is a complete series , also with [Recess] printing of Waterlow , but this time the work is good..

1920 "Honoring José Enrique Rodó" (3) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(235,...,237)

Some stamps from a 'Mercury' Series issued in 1921 and 1922.. The stamps are actually from two different series , both with the same beautiful design... one of them , the first one (represented here by the first 10 stamps..) has no Wmk and the 2nd presents a Wmk..the wmk is visible ( at least, parts of it...) without any operation, the design , as i said before , is very beautiful and detailed..

 I present some spare stamps and as usual I tried to find something different and out of the ordinary in the stamps... this time , the only thing I could find was this small brown spot near 'Mercury's' body.. it is a spot of the Label Background brown and not the dark brown of the body... it must be again some kind of printing problem, but it is there...

1921/1922 "Mercury" (12) [Litho (NPW)] Sc(238,239,240,242,246,247,248)(and spares..)

1922/1923 "Mercury" (6) [Litho (NPW)][Wmk] Sc(254,255,256,257,259)

a beautiful Ultramarine blue stamp that must be one of the first stamps celebrating Football.. it is from a series with 3 stamps issued in 1928...
1928 "Uruguayan Football Victories" (3) [Recess (A. Barreiro Y Ramos)] Sc(390)

This is a stamp honoring Juan Zorrilla De San Martin, know writer and Poet.. He was Uruguay's Ambassador in the court of Alfonso XIII, and I have a strange curiosity about this stamp...
Thursday morning I was working for my other blog in a post about José Zorilla de San Martin.. I searched a little bit in the Net and  found his father Juan..José Zorrilla was a very important sculptor and painter, and also designed two stamps for Uruguay in 1935 and 1961...then , Friday afternoon, I was preparing my stamps for this post and found this small stamp about his father.. just a curiosity....
1933 "Juan Zorrilla De San Martin" (1) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons , London)] Sc(446)

A very nice stamp honoring President Roosevelt.. it is from a series of 3 stamps that commemorates the Postal Congress of the Americas and Spain... so Roosevelt appears in the stamp because of his life as a Philatelist.. the stamp has a very good work of design and Engraving and it is again printed by Waterlow.
1953 "5th Postal congress of the Americas and Spain" (3) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons)] Sc(604)

two more stamps from Waterlow and from a series issued in 1954.. it is a large series with many different stamps and it is now in the Group of the "Most Wanted"..

1954 "Various Designs" (17) [Recess (Waterlow and Sons, London)] Sc(611,618)

I hope that this post could help you to know better Uruguayan Stamps... it was for me a very nice introduction and time well spent with another rich 'Philatelic World'  in South America...

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