Some Cool Ones From Some Of The Latin Countries

I like the look of all of these. They all have that rich colonial Spanish look to them. At least to me anyway :)

The two Colombian ones of the waterfalls are a Scott Type A160 from 1948, but, since they are overprints, they are Scott #C231 from 1953.

All the stamps are of minimal value, just nice to look at I think and al the cancels are fairly nice.

Thanks for posting these. Minimal catalog value or no, early Latin American look great in a stock book.

Here is your Chilean friend overprinted for air service (C11 1928):


This gentleman below figures big in 19th century Costa Rican issues (President Soto), here on a 10c issue from 1889 (#28 purchased MH for $0.13). The 50c issue #30 nearly broke the bank at $0.35.



I have a page of Ecuador as well and the early specimens are similar design. Early 20th century pieces are interesting too and I have a burgeoning collection of Dominican Airmails from the 1920s-40s...

There is growing interest in Latin America collecting...many of those countries contracted with excellent printing firms like Waterlow and Sons and ,American Bank Note Company,Perkins, Bacon and co. etc; !

Those are very pretty too Gaff. Thanks for sharing.

Technically they are not Spaniards, that is, stamps from Spain. They are Chilean, Colombian and Portuguese stamps. Hmm. That Costa Rican stamp is a real looker.

smauggie, you are right, technically. I should have used the word "Latin" countries instead.