Cuban Audubon ?

So years ago when I was first collecting I managed to snag some cheap but nice WW envelope mixtures. In one I found several stamps from Cuba depicting a variety of Audubon paintings from his original wildlife studies. I only got about 5 or 6 of them and I've no idea what happened to them since but now that I'm back to my album I'm trying to find them. I can't seem to find them listed in my Scott's (1999) and from what I've seen some consider them illegal, some cinderellas.....

Anyone else know of the series? Perhaps know a dealer to find it from? I don't know what the set name is or the Scott's so it's being a pain in my butt trying to track them down tonight.

Betty Ann

Couldn't see a Cuban issue. There's a 1975 Haiti set - might that be it?

Regards.

Geoff

Are you sure that they are not from Haiti, rather than Cuba?
There was a scandal about the production of about 75 Haiti Audubon bird stamps around 1975.

You know, now that y'all mention it might have been Haiti. I remember one was a beautiful pelican and another was a western bluebird with stunning hue. It's been a number of years so I could totally h ave been mistaken about Cuba.

22crows

Thanks- this is fascinating!

http://www2.webster.edu/~corbetre/h.../scandal.htm

Regards.

Geoff

The stamps were probably from Haiti

Yep Timm,that's them! So now the search for the set begins anew!

These cinderellas are NOT rare or scarce as often advertised but are actually very common. Especially the CTO stamps.

I put together a mint never hinged set (not cto) of 75 different off of ebay for well under 10 bucks.