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Post by smauggie on Dec 27, 2018 6:06:20 GMT
Noria, Sonora, Mexico October 20, 1919 Scott 544 These stamps are not listed in my 2004 Scott Classic Specialized but they are in my 2014 Scott catalog. Sometime in the past decade or so these were added to the Mexico listings in Scott. Technically it seems they were issued by the "Free and Sovereign State of Sonora".  |
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Post by smauggie on Jan 3, 2019 17:08:38 GMT
Agencia No. 11
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Scott C599 Exporta
October 30, 1980 My burning question is, does anyone know of a resource for Mexican postal rates?This cover was mailed form the customs department at the Guadalajara airport. I think I am safe in assuming that Agencia No. 11 is the post office at the airport. 
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Post by stamphinger on May 19, 2020 16:49:17 GMT
A recent acquisition for my small foreign advertising cover collection. I bought this Hotel Melendez cover for its colorful illustration of the town of Taxco, Guerrero. Presumably, the hotel is the three story brown building in the lower left. The cover is franked with a plain Jane definitive stamp of 1944, Sc. 790. The fuzzy postmark is clear enough to see the cover was posted on 30 October, 1945. Taxco is the center for silver mining and related jewelry industry of Mexico. Some say that Taxco was built on a mountain of silver.
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Post by luciano on Jun 25, 2020 12:07:03 GMT
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Post by darkormex on Sept 15, 2020 1:58:28 GMT
I purchased a lot of 100 Chilean stamps from a dealer in Mexico on August 7 and the stamps arrived in my mailbox today, September 14. The stamps arrived on the exact date that the eBay auction listing stated which is surprising given that it had to go through customs and the current delays in mail. I ended up paying about US .06c per stamp which I thought was a pretty good deal. Most of the stamps will fill holes in my album. The registered mail cover has 3 copies of $13.50 pesos value from the Mexican definitives set depicting handicrafts, the design is a re-purposing of a design type originally issued starting in 2005. All of these stamps are from the set of new values issued in 2020. Note the big rectangular Guadalajara cancels.  It is not a traditional envelope. The customs form and a photo which shows a row of 19th century buildings (perhaps the street where the dealer's shop is?), all seem to printed on a piece of paper which wraps around a cardboard stiffener and which contained a glassine of full of the stamps, additionally placed in a plastic sleeve. On the back are two copies of the $1.00 peso values from the same handicrafts set, also imprinted 2020. Also note the international registration sticker and barcode.  |
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Post by Jerry B on Sept 15, 2020 7:45:36 GMT
Hi smauggie
Try the APRL. There is a book but I cannot remember the name. Look at the listings.
Jerry B
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 16, 2021 23:00:56 GMT
A 1952 Pepsi advertising cover for my beverage cover collection from the San Luis Potosi, Mexico, bottler of Pepsi Cola.
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Post by stamphinger on Jan 5, 2024 22:06:39 GMT
This is a cover I picked up at a local stamp club meeting, mostly for the unrecognized stamp issue from Chiapas Libre on its reverse. The back story on the cover is that Mexican Stamps (the addressee), was a now defunct stamp exchange service in south Oklahoma City. For every two stamps a collector sent he/she got one new one in return. The cover was posted in San Diego on July 7, 1995 with no return address, but it looks like it did go through the mails.
The collecting point for me is the stamps from the breakaway Mexican state of Chiapas in south central Mexico. Chiapas has a long history of seeking independence from Mexico dating back to 1849 and the first Chiapas Libre movement. It and a follow-up attempt in 1983 failed, as did the most recent in 1995, the one that generated the stamps on the cover's reverse.
There are a couple of internet references to the 1995 Chiapas revolutionary activities and a mention of the stamps, but none pictured. The only photo of the complete 1995 issue I found was on WorthPoint here:
Again, not much information, but enough to see that the cover has four of the seven stamps issued. Don StampHinger  |
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Post by rod222 on Jan 5, 2024 23:02:37 GMT
Again, not much information, but enough to see that the cover has four of the seven stamps issued.
Don StampHinger All new information for me, Don, very nice. CHIAPAS cherrystone auctions 2010  link7 (early) Chiapas stamps shown in Klaseboer DVD Volume 2, including forgeries and re-prints.
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