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I just saw an item in Linn's about "The Postal Markings of Guatemala" parts I and II. Part II has just been released. Did you buy the first part? If I wanted to ditch some/all of the other CA countries and concentrate of Guatemala, would this be worth having?

I like the Q-birds also, and the more I've seen of the CA material the more I like pre-1960 Guatemala and British Honduras.

Greg, I have the following..the original Guatemala-1, the reprint of Guatemala 2, Guatemala philately 1971-1990 thats actually a continuation of Guatemala 2 and The Postage Stamps of Guatemala 1871 to 1999... I reccomend the last one to you...at this point in your collecting it will give you a lot of information and its only about 20 bucks..it gives the total printings of each stamp..some of the higher value airmails there were only 3,000 printed and they are readily available for a few dollars in circuit books and on eBay !!

Greg I do not yet have the postal marking books..you are getting deep when you start collecting the little post offices..ambulante covers..postmarked from travelling post offices are not that scarce..i would forget about railroad cancels..but there are a lot of nuts running around in the Guatemala society...

I guess it's fixin to get nuttier since I'm going to join!

BTW - thanks for the advice. I ordered the Postage Stamps of Guatemala, 1871-2007 - the new version!