Ecuador: Stamps

Hi Rodney and Steve

I am satisfied

I downloaded the Forbin catalog. So now I have Forbin and Album Weeds. Next, someone tell me where I can get, online, a Ecuador Cataldi or Bertossi catalog.

Muchas gracias amigos.

Jerry B

Hi Ryan

Cataldi and Bertossi are 2 Ecuador catalogs that I know of. Years ago when I was in Quito, Ecuador I went to 2 dealers and neither had "extra" copies to sell. My friend who owns a stamp store had an old Cataldi and I did not buy it as I thought they were readily available. Big mistake, they seem to be as rare as hen's teeth.
I did see a Cataldi catalog on eBay a while back but I got outbid.

I once asked Phil Banser (philatelic literature) to see if he could find a copy of a Cataldi catalog. After a few months he gave up.

There is a Cataldi in the APRL, but not a Bertossi: Cataldi Catalog

If you do find one of the catalogs, I would grab it.

Jerry B

Ecuador 1908
Steiner Page 12

1909 / 1910 /1912    Surcharges on Postal, Fiscal, and Consular.   
page with gaps.
Page CV : $136 / $86

Very nice anglobob - I have 100 stamps of this Country - all classics and they shall go also as I am keeping the Countries I specialize in - any takers ? or traders for my Countries GB,Canada, Br Colonies, France and a few others - PM me
René

Another selection ,this time of escolares...also from the province of Guayas.These date from 1907.Each province was allowed to overprint stamps to help finance education costs in each province.The overprint here was applied to every block of 4 stamps.Used blocks with a complete overprint are hard to find.
Again,there are many forged overprints.

anglobob   on 1902 Guayas is it the slanted  "signature " that is the overprint?

and on Guayas Escolares is it the double lined/bordered stamp?

The others I see  (Rios)  (DE)   but on these, I'm not sure what i am looking at *


*disclaimer- I do not collect stamps from Ecuador, but i like their hats! (aka Panamas)

Incendios from the province of Bolivar.These can be identified by the overprint RESELLADA in various colours.All overprints were done manually,so they appear in different positions.Cancellations of this period always seem to be very heavy which often makes it more difficult to see any overprints.

Incendios from the province of Azuay.The overprint looks something like a shield or a heraldry sign,and was applied to a vertical pair of stamps,so its almost impossible to find a stamp with a complete cancellation.If a stamp has the usual heavy cancellation,it,s quite hard to see the overprint.
There are also Escolar stamps from the province of Canar,issued in 1907,with a very similar overprint.

So here I am again, moving on to something completely different. A couple of days ago, I got it in my head that I wanted to print only the classic pages for all the countries of South and Central America. So I am moving on from Denmark and am starting with Ecuador just because I already had a couple of stock pages of previously accumulated Ecuador stamps that I had catalogued, plus the few that were in my recent old album pages and a overstuffed envelope full of Ecuador stamps from the classic period to possibly the 70s.

On the South American continent I already have printed pages for Brazil (a rather extensive collection) and Argentina, so taking it one at a time, here goes Ecuador. Let's see how long I stick to this...

Regarding the above fiscal revenue stamp, I found a whole new collecting rabbit hole that I am tempted to go down. Page 34, on this pdf, www.guayaquilfilatelico.org/biblioteca/ATFE_JCGV_V1.pdf (you will have to use the +/- button to magnify the page) of these homemade Ecuador fiscal tax stamps pages has a whole bunch of these stamps and it does indeed look like the perforation down the middle of the stamp is deliberate. On the page where I found this there are downloadable pages for Ecuador fiscal/revenue/telegraph stamps in case you are interested in going down the rabbit hole with me! www.guayaquilfilatelico.org/timbres.php

I added a couple more Ecuador lots to my collection from eBay recently that I started sorting through yesterday and today. This one is a back of the book lot with a few revenue stamps thrown in. michael , I am pretty intrigued with the idea of finding more revenue stamps from Ecuador, especially in the classics time period to 1940 or so.

I think of this stamp as an iconic stamp of Ecuador. It is a cheap stamp with minimum catalogue value in my 2016 Scott but I like the fact that it is bicolor, green and violet brown, and it has this large image of a cacao pod in the center vignette, violet brown on a white field. Like a lot of bicolor stamps from this time period you would expect mis-registration...off center either vertically or horizontally or somewhere up or down in a corner of the stamp when the second printing of the vignette occurred.

I will bet that there are more spectacular examples than the ones I show here but these 4 stamps are what I have of Sc. no. 306. The two on the left have the cacao pod well centered within the white oval but the right two have the cacao pod shifted down and shifted to the right and upward.

This is from a current auction on Ebay and one of these stamps is printed by Perkins Bacon. Spot the odd one out