My Mexico Album - Scott

I am sure you have already found the Numeral to be perf 12; I can see the perfs at the bottom. Rod's method works a treat, as they say. One further ideal is to save out cheap used stamps from a series to check perfs on higher values, using them as your perf gauges. That's based on the assumption that in nearly all cases, nobody will bother to reperf cheap stamps. Classic US falls into that category, where a lot of even slightly more valuable stamps are reperfed. Plus you will often find the side cutting the design is the reperfed one, done to eliminate a natural straight edge (disliked by most collectors, still) or damage.

With the Mexican numeral being so variable in overall size, you can imagine someone reperfing one of them since they are valuable stamps when intact. So it's good to remain skeptical, at minimum trying to find several examples of a scarce perf (perhaps from still-damaged stamps), before deciding something is genuinely perfed or not. At best, you acquire one that is certified for comparison.

I first used it on this stamp, and realised how easy is was to employ.
Australia Navigators Decimal $1 Sc#415 1966
Guage 14.5 x 14 CV$2
Guage 15.0 x 14 CV$110

Updated page one and a few others that I have catalogued...time to buy more mounts :)

Hello Rita!

Nice collection!. Only one observation: In your first page you placed the 2 reales Scott #8 in the 1861 issue, but the District is Mexico in Ghotic impression, so it is a stamp Scott #37 from the Gothic issue of 1867. I hope this helps.

Regards!
Rodolfo

Hi Rodolfo! Thank you - sorry I am only seeing this - I have been away for weeks due to everything going on. Thank you for catching that as I am still learning - I will place it in it's proper home. I have more stamps to mount that I recently acquired so I will be sharing more work very soon. Mil Gracias!

Welcome back Nora.

Hi littleriverphil :)

Yes nice to be back. was so happy to receive my newly purchased Mexico lot early today just in time for Mother's Day. I plan to mount some tonight and share. These were packaged very nicely from the seller and they gave me free bonus stamps which was really nice.

Nora,

Wow, that's a nice assortment is stamps. I'm sure it will keep you busy for some time. Thanks for sharing and enjoy!

Scott

Updated pages.

Mas.

¡Qué lindas!

Hello. I am working on some pages tonight and for some reason I cannot find this stamp in my catalogue or online. It could be possible that it is newer than I expect - my Scott only goes to 1940.

I can make out that it is a San Luis Potosi coat of arms and I think it says 1933. I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks all. Nora.

Has me stumped. (Date 1932)
Looks used, I see part of an oval cancel.
Maybe a "Interior" revenue stamp.

I wonder what Potosi means in Spanish ? I only have references on stamps from Bolivia and Nicaragua.

Here is another from San Luis Potosi
I could not extract any information from his Catalogue references



https://www.ebay.com/itm/zl29-Mexic...362565773007

Fiscal or a regional/unofficial issue? Estado de San Luis Potosí.

San Luis Potosí in Mexico takes its name from the city in Bolivia. The Inca Huayna Cápac ordered his people to extract silver from a mine near Ccolque Porco. When they started to extract the silver, they heard a loud noise after which a voice told them to stop extracting the silver because it belongs to other lords. They stopped mining for silver. When they returned to Porco, they told the Inca about what happened. Their word for the "made a loud sound" was "poctosi." This word became Potosí.

In the 1800s, there was a period that offices marked - overprinted - stamps to identify the office it came from. That may be the case with the one on Ebay.
Another explanation is that it comes from "orcco potocchi" meaning "hill from which sprouts silver."