Destrace Overprint ?

i am not afraid to ask for help when I need it ! I picked up these Nicaraugua overprinted officials at our club tonight because they looked interesting...i could not find them under Nicaraugua officials in the scott catalog and my Spanish is very poor..perhaps someone fluent in Spanish knows the word or could help me catalog them !

I'm stumped...nothing on Google and AskPhil came up blank.

i also tried the Spanish to English translator..stumped that as well !

I even tried French to English just in case Des Trace = Trace...not too helpful.

I think it means Butchering, To Cut Up, or something similar.


Maybe it is for a department similar to the USDA?

The only thing I saw regarding a "DESTACE" overprint on Nicaraguan officials/telegraph stamps was in a feedback listing for a sale on ebay back on March 16, 2008.




I do not know if it was the same as yours, since the listing is no longer available.

The cancels look like revenue cancels, so I vote for some sort of butcher's revenue.

"Destace de cerdos" seems to be a phrase that pops up on Google.

My wife reminds me that two are telegraph stamps and two are officials..i should be more observant..but I do seem to have an eye for the Latin American stamps !!

Heads up :) It's Destace, not Destrace as in header,
no doubt a typo Phil.

Forbin 1900

I'm including a google link to a page that might come up in Spanish, If it does just use google translate then scroll down to (Article 10), It talks about a 10 centavos stamp.
I think it a official stamp that was placed on a paper by a local goverment that was used to make a claim for diseased meat.
This might shed some light on the subject of the use of this stamp.
And this might account for the overprint ( Destace )
http://legislacion.asamblea.gob.ni/...OpenDocument

That Forbin excerpt is interesting, but it doesn't exactly i.d. Phil's stamps. The listing appears to deal with telegraphs, but not officials, so that would seem to rule out two...

Type A overprints are read from the bottom up, I believe, and Type B from the top down. I think it is saying that Forbin #4 should have the overprint in capital, italicized letters, but it would read from top to bottom. So, Phil #4 is close, but the overprint is reading the wrong way to be Forbin #4.

Am I reading that right?

Agreed, it doesn't ID the stamps per se,
but I think we need to ID the term initially,
then the stamps ID themselves if there is not a
given or existing reference.
Going by Norseman's link, it may refer to
vetinary checks within the Pork Industry.
It's quite an interesting curiosity.

I googled....Nigaragua,oficial destace 10 centavos...A bunch of search results came up in spanish and when I translated the result page the first one caught my eye...I don't know what the other result are ..but someone may want to check them out.

It's comforting to note other people do this, I quite often
buy stamps at auctions because they look so, I have no
idea what they are, so I buy them
I thought I was the only one to do this.

Rod, for a dollar for the 4 I thought they might be worth checking out..when we see something thats not familiar it does make us curious. thanks also to Norseman012 the Islandic-Italian for your contribution..my kids are Italian-Dutch, I think with an edge to the dutch for their Mom !

Rod, sorry about that..i can not read either...its plain to see the overprint is Destace !!