Queen Isabella II
January 1863
The previous issue lasted but a short time, as it was succeeded
in 1863 by a complete new issue comprising both the cuartos and reales
values. The Type is somewhat similar to the previous issue, except that the
shaded part of the background around the circle of pearls has finer lines,
and there is a colon between "CORREOS" and "INTERIOR"
instead of a period or stop. The word "FRANCO" is of the smaller
type, similar to the issue of 1862. The stamps were lithographed by M. Perez y Hijo on thick, white
paper in Manila; issued imperforate; and measure 19 x 23¼ mm. Sheet make-up
is identical to that of the previous issue, with 128 stamps to the sheet, (13
rows of 10 stamps each, except the bottom row which held a blank space at
each end, with a total of 8 stamps between). As indicated by the heading on these stamps of "CORREOS :
INTERIOR", this issue was for use within the There were two stones used for this issue, one for the 5-cuartos
and 10-cuartos values, and the other for the 1-real and 2-reales values.
After the 5-cuartos and 2-reales stamps had been printed, the values were
removed from the stone and the new values, 10-cuartos and 1-real
respectively, were placed on the stones by hand.
10-cuartos. A total of 7,000 stamps issued, in shades of
rose-carmine. (Scott #15; SG #20; Edifil #12) 1-real. A total of 5,000 stamps issued in
reddish-violet. (Scott #16; SG #21; Edifil #13) 2-reales. A total of 5,000 stamps issued in dull blue.
(Scott #17; SG #22; Edifil #14)
Note: VARIETIES AND ERRORS 10-cuartos. Circle around the "1" of
"10", which probably occurs as one position in the sheet.
ROYAL DECREES AND ORDERS 1863 A Royal Ordinance was issued, directing that
demands for Postage Stamps should be made sufficiently in advance to avoid
delay and expense. To the Governor, The Captain-General of
the Your Excellency: In
view of the letter of Your Excellency, Nos. 822 and 850, dated March 6th and April
30th last, forwarding with the first the report relating to the manufacture
of 200,000 stamps of the value of five cuartos, for the franking of inland
correspondence, the printing of which was authorised by Your Excellency on
August 8, 1862, and giving an account in the second of the unavoidable
necessity that had arisen for giving similar authority for other printings of
stamps of different values, on account of the exhaustion of the supplies in
the offices of the Treasury. The Queen (whom God preserve) has deigned, in
view of the reasons expressed in the above-named report, to approve of Your
Excellency’s decision in respect of the manufacture of the 200,000 stamps;
and in regard to the printing of the stamps of other kinds, since this
Ministry has been informed that the required supplies of stamps produced at
the National Printing Office have already been sent to Cadiz for immediate
despatch to the Islands, Your Excellency must suspend all further printings,
which, at the receipt of this order, may not have been completed and
distributed to the branch offices of the department. Her Majesty, whilst
giving instructions that this service should suffer no further delay ere in
the Peninsula, has at the same time directed that I should be pointed out to
Your Excellency that in future the requisitions referred to above should be
sent in sufficiently and conveniently in advance, it being very extraordinary
that it should be asserted that in 1861 a request was made for 80,000 stamps
for external correspondence, without any one being able to give the date at
which this requisition was made, and without there being any record of it to
be found in the books of this Department. By Royal Command - |
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