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Post by spain1850 on Jul 30, 2013 6:03:29 GMT
This is something I haven't gotten into that much so I would really love to see other peoples covers, or postal history items. Since my main focus is the early stamps of Spain, that is the era I have in covers mainly. I also have a few early stampless covers. This one was mailed from Cadiz to Gand (Ghent) on April 27, 1784. There is a straightline marking from Cadiz, in red. The "13" in the upper right corner refers to the rate charged. Actual rate was 10 reales per 4 adarmes (1/4 oz roughly) and 2-3 reales extra for each adarme over that, so I'm guessing 10r + 3r = 13r from what I can figure out.  |
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Post by spain1850 on Aug 1, 2013 5:47:03 GMT
Small cover, Canary Islands usage. 2c green on white unwmkd paper. Date is indistinct, but would be in the 1856-58 period. Sent from La Laguna to Santa Cruz.  |
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Post by spain1850 on Aug 5, 2013 3:07:05 GMT
Neat little 1872 cover, from Cadiz, franked with a pair of the 200 mil. issue from 1870, which pays the 400 mil. rate to U.S. via England. Various markings from Spain, England and a nice N.Y. steamship mark.  |
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Post by jamesw on Mar 18, 2014 0:01:05 GMT
I'll share this one here. I'm not a Spain collector, but recently purchase this in my on going War Tax frenzy. Mourning cover with 15c King Alphonso XIII #261 along with 1898 MR27 5c war tax stamp. Appears to be double cancelled but unfortunately can't make out a date or location. Most likely Barcelona considering the return address.  |
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Post by jimwentzell on Jun 7, 2015 10:59:24 GMT
 This Spanish bi-sect on cover to France caught my eye years ago. Amazing how one stumbles upon an old lost friend and the memories flood back! Good reason to keep records of what one buys.... I do not usually pay a premium for such items (bisects) since I don't know a lot about them and they sometimes are "contrived". But this one looks appropriately "tied" and legitimately used to frank a letter to France (no pun intended!). I did pay a bit more than the "7.50" pencil notation indicates; I normally do not like to erase anything or otherwise disturb covers; what do you think? Should I carefully attempt to erase the "Bisect" notation as well? |
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Post by jimjung on Jun 7, 2015 12:40:01 GMT
I generally find that any legitimately used bisect cover from the 19th century is quite expensive, especially when it comes from a big country like Spain. After saying that there is a top piece of the bisected stamp torn off and missing from your cover.
I think it's beautiful cover.
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Post by jamesw on Jul 28, 2018 2:41:13 GMT
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Post by jimwentzell on Jan 15, 2019 18:14:22 GMT
This 1891 BI-SECT cover was one of the first "bisects" I had the chance to pick up a number of years ago. It was priced under eight dollars, I think, and though I had no idea of the value, I was intrigued by the uncommon practice of using diagonally-cut in half stamps as postage on a letter. Sent from Barcelona to Paris, France with two values of the "Baby King" Alphonso XIII series; one a 20 centimos yellow-green issue of 1880 (Scott #262) and the other, I believe, is the 40 centimos issue of the same year, cut in half. It's important, obviously, for the bisect to be properly "tied" by a proper cancellation, and for obvious reasons "off paper" bisects are, well, impossible to prove genuine and easy to create, if you have a scissors handy! Some bisects are illegal usages, others are contrived, and yet others (many Latin America countries, if I recall correctly) are not that hard to find and often tolerated by the postal authorities. I thought I posted this in TSF a few years go but I couldn't find it, so here it is..... |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 3, 2019 17:55:52 GMT
Another goodie from firstfrog2013 's Mystery Box, a Spanish cover, franked with two ATM stamps from 1993 (which I didn't have). The interesting thing is the location of the postmark: Ceuta, which is one of the two cities that Spain holds on the African side of the Mediterranean:  |
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Post by david on Jan 1, 2022 11:43:44 GMT
Hello i found these when going through my postal cards :-)    |
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