South America - Anything Of Interest Here?

Oops, failed Geography again, was thinking of Central America. Yes I know South America has some expensive Stamps ie: Bolivia and Argentina.

I collect South America and Central America but nowadays I have a cutoff of like the 1990s unless a country has a stamp of a topical I collect. It is so expensive to collect these countries now but I think the bubble will burst on these countries eventually. I collect Colombia mainly because I get stamps from there in mixes and they are quite nice to be honest. I just wish Seebeck had not done what he did because now I have some Nicaraguan officials and I dont know if they are real or Seebeck.

Hi william

Two quickie ways for telling if the stamp is a Seebeck or not. If watermarked with a liberty cap and the watermark is sideways it is a Seebeck. If no gum on the stamp and the paper feels very thick then it too is a Seebeck. The other tests for Seebeck gets pretty complicated.

An Ecuador collector I knew once told me that a lot of stamps from the Seebeck era have the gum removed so that the paper thickness can be determined. Sometimes a real stamp's gum is so thick it is hard to tell paper thickness.

Jerry B