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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)
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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