Nicaragua : Stamps.

Winner winner, chicken dinner!

(Yes, I understand that I'm relying on an eBay description in saying that. Good detective work, Steve.)

Hi

I know it is beating a dead horse to death.  But, I believe Rod said that the paper was sort of thick.  If that is the case, then I do not see it being Wrappers and Envelopes.  Both of those would be fairly thin in order to bend

Jerry B

Rod,

There is a gent named Glen Stafford who won a Vermeil at TARAPEX 2008 for his exhibit titled "Nicaragua Postal Stationery = Seebeck Era."

I've also come across his name on a number of similar exhibits in my earlier searches.

He's affiliated with the Nicaraguan Study Group and is the President of the Western Australian Philatelic Council.

He is also currently Vice President of the Australian Philatelic Federation and you can find his email address here.

Perhaps you can contact him to see if he can shed any light on what it is that you have.

I thought this was put to bed,  but I am happy to write Mr. Stafford.
I belonged to the WA Philatelic soc, but let my membership lapse, because I now live in the Country.

I have long considered on getting a micrometer for my papers, but to date not got around to it.
I don't believe any of my examples to be thick enough for Postcard stock, only wrapper or cover.

1982
Air Post Sheet
490th Anniversary of the discovery of America    (No Scott value ascribed)

Returning to the Seebeck's......
I have attached the complete set of the Nicaragua 1891 Goddess of plenty issue, not in great condition, but almost certainly original as came attached to the 1891 New Years Card from the Postmaster General. All marked specimen. This set was included with the 1892 Columbus issue (again on the Postmaster general's New Years card) in an envelope dated 8th January 1892 (bearing a 50 centavos / 10 centavos stamp). As the envelope contained the complete 1892 Columbus issue (as well as the complete 1891 issue) and was dated 8th January 1892, can I assume these are original? (rather than reprints) I have found one other example of the 1891 New Years Card, but have yet to find any other reference to the 1892 New Years Card, does anyone have info on these cards?

The only animal on the planet,  where the common name,  matches the Scientific binomial name.

Boa Constrictor.

I'm sure many are familiar with the Nicaraguan volcano stamp that purportedly helped determine the eventual location of the Panama Canal (as opposed to the Nicaragua Canal - supposedly politicians were afraid of this smoking volcano as shown on the stamp so they chose to put the canal through Panama instead).  There's a good article in Linn's that gives you the story.  The story is pertinent now because last week, Momotombo erupted for the first time since 1905.



Ryan

This is part of a collection from different countries celebrating US history.

appears to be Jan 1936 , signature control overprint Sc # 617

The overprint reads "Resello 1935" (perhaps with less ink!)

RetroReveal shows the text of the overprint more clearly:

After reaching out to different source to find more info on these stamps, a gentlemen from the Latin American Philatelics based in London, UK replied the following:

"These are genuine imperfs of the 1987 Capex sport issue, not of any great value I’m afraid. When I get them I usually sell these imperf sets for around £10-£20 depending on the subject matter. To my knowledge there are no print figures for these but they were only produced to sell to stamp collectors as imperf varieties. I doubt any were actually sent to Nicaragua, almost all of these 1970-2000 sets were sold as new issues straight from the printers."

I pushed my luck and asked him if he knew who the printer might be and he replied:

"I think the most likely is House of Questa, but it could have been Format, both were borderline criminal in the 1980’s getting contracts from countries agents and then printing errors and varieties to sell to collectors. I worked in Royale stamp company as a teenager in the late 1980’s and remember describing a huge House of Questa lot of 1000’s of imperfs, overprint varieties, imperf between and missing colours etc. Though these were mostly Commonwealth rather than Latin America."

He also gave me a link to the different printers in the world. Not sure how accurate the list is, but it's a great reference tool.

www.stampprinters.info/SPI_country_gb%20ek.htm

I guess my challenge now is to find some copies that are postaly used!

Nicaraguan stamps to commemorate the tenth world baseball championship

Nicaragua MNH Sc# C306 S/S Block of Four, Year 1949

strange that the illustration shows a man doing a high jump.  

thanks very much anil. Collecting WW is very interesting but very time consuming - you seem to have much spare time perhaps, so good of you to share the fruits of your research. This looks to be an interesting subject and I will read at my leisure soon - thanks again.