Anybody Know What This Stamp(?) Is?

Hi All,

We have an old stamp family album with a collection of stamps put together just prior to the first world war. It has sat around for the best part of 100 years with no one taking any interest in it. For the most part it is full of what you would expect. The GB pages have low value odds and ends plus the contemporary stamps of the day licked and stuck in - that means unused KEVII Jubilee set to 1s The rest of it is full of what I suspect to be the general children's mix of all world stamps plus odd bits and pieces given to the owner.

Amongst it I found this:



I am not even sure it is a stamp. Could it be part of a letter-sheet or something?

As this is way outside my area of philatelic knowledge, I be interested to find out what it is...

Ralph.

It's a stamp all right.
Colombia
1901 1c black with purple overprint
Found with sewing machine perforation or imperforated
Mint/used $1/$1
Scott 185

I do not have a stationery catalog. However, it does appear to be Colombia #185(1901) in the Scott catalog. That stamp was sewing machine perforated, so the perforations can often be very poor or even mostly absent. Your stamp appears to be from the lower right corner of the sheet? If you look carefully, you can see traces of the sewing machine perforations at the top.

Thank you for the prompt replies, using the information you provided I have now found it in my Stanley Gibbons Part Three (1969 edition!)SG number 309 - in those days it was catalogued at 4d (1½p) - about 1c US at today's exchange rate!

Now that is what I call value for money, kept me busy for a while and I don't have to sell it to save on insurance. Another curiosity to add to my growing stock of such things - Love it!

Ralph

Hi Genuinely used

Just to give you a little more info.

This is the 5th issue issued during the 1000 day war in Colombia.

The 5th issue was printed in Cartegena by Enrique E. Delgado. The 5th issue also has a 2 centavo stamp. Normally with sewing machine perforations but, according to Leo Temprano's catalog, there are 6 varieties of the 1c and 2c overprints. Also found imperforate all around, imperforate horizontally and imperforate vertically.

Jerry B

Varieties varieties varieties. How will I ever find room in my albums. My 279B varieties just about take over the album page!

Hi jhlovell

First off what is 279B

I have used about 10 pages for the 1000 day war issues (and I am not even close to having everything). That does include blocks. In my collection, on a few pages, half are taken up by the paper color varieties. Also, I pretty much have a page for each value of the 1904 numeral issues (Scott 314 - 322). One reason I use only quadrilled blank pages.

I once saw a pre-printed Colombia Album. I believe that it was produced by Alvaro Barriga in Bogota. Even that specialized album did not have spaces for all the varieties.

Jerry B