Ecuador Fire Control Marks

Hi

I thought I had posted this once before but could not find it.






Jerry B

Nice post Jerry,
very helpful for the curious,
I have never seen/recognised one before.

Hi Rodney,

A long time ago I bought about 5 album pages of these marks. I told the seller what they were but he said he did not have space for them in his album so he sold it for a relatively small amount. I still do not have all of them. Some dealers are aware of them but a lot of dealers assume they are fancy cancels. When I was working part time in the stamp store I purchased a few of them. You do not see them very often. In 20 years I have not seen a cover with any of them.

I believe I still have the pages from the Yvert album that lists the stamps on the page reverse. I'll have to dig them out and make a listing and I'll post it here.

Note: Because they were handstamped, in some cases it is very difficult to see the mark.

Jerry B

thanks jerry, saved the thread. - great information

http://zenius.kalnieciai.lt/,
Click on Americas, then Ecuador, then 1902 locals!

3 examples of 1902 Locals overprints Q-G Railway version 3,
Los Rios & Tungurahia version 1,

Hi jbecv80, Where did you find those Control marks chart? Is there one for the 1907 issues?

Hi warrehouse

I have had this chart for over 16 years and I cannot remember where I found it. I had a friend that also collected Ecuador and I may have gotten it from him.

Jerry B

Google showed a couple of examples from ebay:

http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/st...7907471.html

http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/st...7906951.html

While looking some more, found these pages:

http://esp.ebay.com/viewItem?item=2...453327&v=gbh

http://esp.ebay.com/viewItem?item=3...063219&v=gbh

This page has a section on the marks almost at the bottom of the page, and a lot of pictures of "T" and "OB" overprints.

http://translate.google.com/transla...r=auto|en&u=http://www.cifr.it/forum54.html

Hi

This is an update to my original post. The article discusses the Ecuador Fire Control marks and was written after the original post:

http://www.philatelicdatabase.com/t...ntrol-marks/

Jerry B