Chile : Stamps.

Here is an example page from Mom's W/W collection.As you see her simple method is easy to follow twenty numbers per page and presto a collection.This one notebook contains Chad and Chile.Her collection extends to over 125 different notebooks.If a stamp catalogs for $1 or more it rates showgard other wise it is hinged in place.A collection that must be seen in it's entirety to be appreciated.

Christopher Columbus

1878-99 Rouletted

Scott # 26 (A4)
In type A4 there is a small colorless ornament at each side of the base of the numeral above the "E" & "V" .


Scott # 28,29

stainlessb , you posted the above earlier when I was working on Thailand and it reminded me that I have been toying with the idea of moving on to Chile for my next stamp project. Below are two pages from an old album purchase, plastered with stamps from Chile...I am really itching to dig into this but am torn about what pages I want to use.

My debate is whether I want to use Steiner pages or print the pages from this website posted earlier this year by coastwatcher....http://thestampforum.boards.net/post/77565

I am not overly fond of pre-printed pictures of the stamps, even if they are black and white, on my pages, so I will probably go with Steiner.

An early international air mail; Swiss stamps, Chilean destination. Looks like someone was sending a Christmas letter home to papa in Chile, a little late. By train from Davos, air mail from Geneva to Marseilles; there was no scheduled trans-Atlantic air mail then, except Zeppelins to Rio. So if I have this right, they paid a lot--CHF 4.20 or almost a dollar, then--mostly for a small leg of the journey. I assume the sender felt guilty. By ships the rest of the way, probably with transfers somewhere on the North American East Coast, in Panama and Santiago, but that's me guessing again. Still, eleven days was good time, for the technology of the era.

So as I am diving into my Chile accumulation, pulling from the collection I bought and cataloging and mounting stamps, I thought I would talk about the interesting odds and ends I find as I do this. For me, going through old collections in an album or a bunch of pages pulled from an album and sold separately is my favorite way of buying stamps and I love going through the pages after buying them. Sometimes you find some not so common tidbits.

Chile, Scott no. 29 is part of a series of roulette stamps issued from 1878 to 1899 featuring Christopher Columbus. The 10c orange stamp of the series is below and I also have two copies of 29a, the yellow variety which catalogs at a higher value. One I already had and the other was in the collection I bought.





Here is the Steiner page where I have everything mounted. Yup...I am missing quite a few. I guess I will have to go the next stamp bourse in March! I mounted the 10c yellow adjacent to the 1c and 2c on the right.

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Here are the Chilean stamps which came in the cover from Mexico I received today, which I talk about here.



While I have specifically focused on all those wonderful airmails from the 40s, 50s and 60s, this lot contained a lot of stamps from the same time frame that were not necessarily airmails. I am really happy with the purchase. It was cheap and the stamps are in very good condition.

CHILE (Chili) has not received much interest lately
Are there enough collectors on TSF to motivate a giveaway by the end of Summer (my Summer) ? and I would guess that if there are collectors, they would be "experts" !!

René
btw I do not collect Chile

Thanks Bob for your interest....that makes at least 1 for a possible giveaway !!

René

Two early airmail stamps.SG 202/3 issued in 1931/32.

I would be glad if a member with experience in identifying the first stamps issued, appeared.
I tried 5 years ago (when I first became interested in stamps and philately) to identify them but quickly gave up because of the wide variety of colours.
Reading the thread I came back to them.
On some of them the watermark is easily visible (for the others I got watermark fluid)
I have learned over the years how to differentiate an engraved print from a litho print (although some stamps I think are "Santiago Prints-Impression Worn and Blurred" hard to differentiate from the previous Litho print.
I saw on the internet (forgot the address) a block of 10c stamps that was traced with diagonal and vertical lines for later cutting and using the half as 5c.
This method of pretracing was used at a time period when 5c stamps were hard to find. (it says in the forgotten website)
In Scott there are numbers for these half stamps for all issues and I suspect that they were cut when needed without pretracing.
If an experienced member has come forward to consult with, I would resume this attempt at identification.
I hope to get some good news
George

I'm a newer member and just noticed this thread. Besides U.S. stamps, I've spent a considerable amount of time with Chile. The first issues have seemed so fraught with forgeries that I tended to stay away. I did download a couple of intense documents, ( I believe from the ChileCollector.com) Analysis of the First Issues of Chile and First Issues. They're PDF's I'm happy to share. My later focus on my collection has been upgrading to mint where I might find opportunities. I do love collecting Columbus issues (now all of Latin America) and the Discovery of America. Anyone have any thoughts on where to obtain missing pricier issues?

Interesting philatelia , I now see the interest in collecting these also.