Ecuador Telegraph Or Revenue - Help Please

Can't find this in my Scott. Must be a telelgraph or revenue. Can someone give me a Scott or other cat number so I can file this away. Thanks as always. - Jeff

Jeff clearly its a telegraph fee stamp..but we would need a specialized Ecuador catalog to ID it...i don't think I have seen one before.....

jhlovell, here is the same stamp on the ebay auction, with the information you are searching for included in the description:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ECUADOR-1894-TE...170523581150

so, it is "Yvert 15", I suppose.

thank you filipo and philb

According to Yvert, it is the image of Rocafuerte, should perf 12, and is the middle value of a three value set for 1894. 10c, 20c, and 40c. The 20c is the lowest value* of the three, though none will send you off on a cruise.

[edit: *lowest catalogue value...obviously, it is the middle face value. ]

Nice work Filipo ! I collect Argentina..but Argentine dealers charge way too much..so I avoid them and buy locally !!

Hi Jeff,

According to my 1980 Minkus catalog the stamp depicted is an Ecuador telegraph stamp T14, which in 1980 was 5 cents mint or used (I would assume 20 cents now). The whole set (1980 prices):

1894 Rocafuerte,inscribed 1894 at top or bottom
Engraved by Hamilton Banknote Company, Perf 12
T13  10c yellow green  1.20  .15
T14  20c vermilion      .05  .05 
T15  40c brown          .40  .40

Jerry B

Bless the old Minkus catalogs I see they went far beyond what Scott lists in their catalogs !!

Hi philb,

The catalog lists Telegraph and etc. for only a few countries.

I was lucky to get this catalog, Volume One, Part III, Latin America, 1980. I saw a copy at the old Gimbel's Minkus stamp counter and they would not sell it as "they were selling stamps not books". So, I wrote a letter to Jacques Minkus telling him their response. A week or so later I received a package and it was a copy of the catalog with an apologetic note from Mr. Minkus. I am sorry that he did not sign the book.

It sure was different collecting stamps and living in New York City in the Nassau Street days. You pretty much had everything available.

Jerry B

Hi Jerry I missed the Nassau street days..but in 1963 I was working in mid town Manhatten and there were stamp dealer store fronts every couple of blocks with 10 cent cover boxes...but rent was cheap in those days......

Hi Philb,

You missed an experience of a lifetime. I may be dating myself but I remember Subway Stamp Shop was literally in the subway arcade (thus the name). You bought items that had a slight hint of subway
"schmootz" on them and no one complained.

We moved to Maine but every time we went to New York to visit relatives my itinerary was Nassau Street,Gimbels and 57th Street.

Jerry B

There's also a dull scarlet shade of the 20c which is worth more.