Big Blocks 1898 Philippines Revolutionary Aguinaldo Stamps

I have found these large blocks of 1898 Philippines Revolutionary Aguinaldo Stamp blocks in my schaubeck albums, a reprint of which 50,000 stamps seem to have been printed. I see them being sold for about $1 a piece but have no idea of the value together in these huge mint blocks. Any help is much appreciated!

The colours are not good, but the perforations are right

the lines around the edge of perforations are all touching together , but not on yours , your stamps have been print recently on new paper.

can you scan only one at 600 dpi

I don't understand what you mean at all? These sheets have been in the books for at least 25 years I know of personally and longer since my grandfather himself hasn't been collecting.

Here's the scan of just one at 600dpi, the pictures on the first post have been with a camera which causes the colour difference.

I means I don't thing those stamps are 117 years old

Comparing mine to the one on a blog where I found my info:
http://www.nigelgooding.co.uk/Spani...guinaldo.htm

Considering my great grandfather was stationed in Manilla (Philippines) where my grandfather was born I doubt they're fake.

I leave 3 years in Philippines, my neighbour was chairman of De la Salle University , he give me a "BS Computer Science with Specialization in Network Engineering" diploma under my name and I never step foot in the building . he study French in Stanford ( California ) many years ago . Actually I did some work for him, but in Subik ( old US Navy base ) , a school for train employees of company like Acer .... 5 class, 125 computers in 2000

the stamps are made with the original equipment but when is the question.

Look I found a photo on the Subic Beach taken in February 2000

I have only been to the Philippines on a short holiday myself.

So does the same go for the grey series? I'm looking at the paper underneath the sheet myself and can't believe it's less than 100years old.

Ah, le silence de la mer!

Can we see the back in 600 dpi of the red one

I have about 70 other philippino stamps from this period, many stamped, that have the same quality paper. I don't believe they're fake.

here's the scan of the backside:

The problem with these partial sheet ( not a block ) is the printer was very sloppy and don't leave is mark in the margin of the sheet , or you simply don't have the part where he did it. A corner block with mark always gives more value to the block to me at least. The first photo makes believe they were something seriously wrong with them. But after more close-up observation, you can see the same sloppy work the printer did with other one. On your reference source the word " reprinted version of the above stamps " is wrong. It's not a reprint it's a print of another version. Change have been make that Y1 value is more than 100 time Y2

Now the real question, was your partial sheet been authorize by the government or the printer simply reprint them later with a very different ink. ( and that will not surprise me, many printers did it in place like St-Vincent and other similar place ) You ask for the value, well I can see only 1 corner block on the red left over of the sheet. As for the rest if you separate them you will not sell them very high as they are not well centred. And for someone who know, the sloppy work associate with this printer will not make it a rarity.

If you was a ebay seller with hundreds of sale and 100% , I will give a good price but only to cut the sheets in half and place them in an album with one facing and one back to shop the sloppy work.


So the way to ID them is not with repeatability of the work but with the repeatability bad quality of the work. Funny no ?

Thanx for your opinion area66! From what I understand he might have kept these particular sheets to show how sloppy the prints were?

I have another block of 10 Philippine stamps Spanish Occupation 3 centavos from I believe the same period. If I may be so free to post them in the same topic: