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Hello members and Happy New Year. I found this stamp please advice where it comes from. I appreciate the help. Thank you Mara  |
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The "Golfo de Uraba" is an arm of the Carribean Sea in Colombia. I have no idea what Almar is, or if the geography lesson is of any help
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Based on the map on the stamp it is in the North Western part of Colombia at the tip of the Gulf of Uraba. |
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"AL MAR!" would translate as "To the sea!," as "on the sea!" as an exclamation makes little sense.
Also, the stamp shows a town square with an arrow coming out of it towards the Gulf of Urabá. The arrow starts somewhere in the centre of Antioquia.
It might be the Iglesia de la Candelaria in Medellín that appears in the stamp, but then the square and buildings around it must have been completely reconstructed. It does not look like the cathedral in Santafé de Bogotá. |
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"To the Sea" makes sense to me
The town may be Medellin, but they may be promoting the Railway seen in the Vignette 1926
"Autopista al Mar " 2018 = "Motorway to the sea"
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That looks like a tramway. Maybe, the vignette was issued to raise funds for a road from Medellín to Urabá. Quote:
As the Colombian economy pulled itself together in the years following World War I, enthusiasm mounted within Antioquia for an automobile route to the sea. No longer would a mere horse trail be acceptable, and a railroad seemed increasingly impractical and unnecessary. Work was inaugurated with elaborate fanfare on June 10, 1926, with the Bishop of Antioquia blessing a crowbar at a ceremony at the end of the streetcar line in San Cristobal, a village across the valley from Medellín where the work commenced. An Assembly subcommittee in 1929 had answered complaints that further investment in the Carretera al Mar threatened to siphon funds from other needed road projects in the department and bring economic ruin to the departmental railroad recently completed between the Rio Magdalena and Medellín. Completion of the last stretch of the Carretera al Mar, topographically the easiest, had to await the end of World War II. |
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Sounds good...I like it.
Yes, in 1929 they were celebrating the railroad Medallin to Magdalena River
(Half the distance)
So road makes a lot of sense to me.
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/04/2023 05:27 am |
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At the bottom left of the label posted by vayolene it appears there is the name of the printer or designer. It ends in "MEDELLÍN". |
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there is the name of the printer or designer. It ends in "MEDELLÍN". The printer? (designer is always to the left?) can be identified with a clear impression of this stamp Lit d S?ARENGO MEDELLIN ? The inscription reads : LIT. J. L. ARANGO MEDELLIN COLOMBIALIT = Lithography? Lithographer. Sc# 318 1904  |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/04/2023 10:19 am |
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Peter, Almar has an exclamation mark What an exclamation mark is used for? The exclamation mark (!), known informally as a bang or a shriek, is used at the end of a sentence or a short phrase which expresses very strong feeling. "To the Sea!" J L Arango work https://catalogue.swanngalleries.co...refNo=567460 |
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| Edited by rod222 - 01/04/2023 10:25 am |
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Printer
Litografia J.L. Arango - Medellín was the printer of litographed stamps for the Antioquia department 1902 - 1904.
ALMAR and AL MAR are two different things. The spacing suggests the last.
The exclamation mark fits with the Carretera del Mar.
I have a strong suspicion Almar Viajes did not exist when the stamp was issued. |
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| Edited by NSK - 01/04/2023 11:03 am |
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