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Hi David, I do like your Dutch East Indies envelope. I've not seen one of these before. It's a lovely stamp design.  Sorry, I can't help with the dates. |
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The Brazilian wrapper's got an interesting history. It's from the first set of three issued in 1889 but they all had to be replaced later the same year as the numbers in the values had been printed in Spanish by mistake instead of Portuguese!  In this case it says cuarenta for forty instead of quarenta |
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Looking at the image of Queen Wilhelmina I would guestimate between 1900 and 1910..but looking at stamps of 1900-1922 she does not seem to age in that time frame !! |
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APS 070059 Life Member International Society of Guatemala Collectors I.S.G.C. #853 |
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philb, I have a couple of those later issues and she hasn't aged on mine either. |
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David, I think you're right. The last Higgins & Gage prices (1986) in USD were $1.50, $1.50 & $2.00 for the mint wrappers with values in Spanish (20r, 40r and 60r) and 50c each mint with the value in Portuguese. |
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The Wilhelmina is beautiful, and an unusual design. Shame they kind of ruined it with the surcharge. But I guess they weren't thinking of aesthetics. |
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Jamesw I guess its in the eye of the beholder...i enjoy overprinted stamps..the Central and South American countries overprinted a LOT of their stamps..msny times they just ran out of one denomination of stamp so they just slapped a new value on another....Guatemala did it many times in the late 19th century and early 20th ! |
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