Site Updates
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April
2008: A new Reference Section has been added this month. I am in the
process of converting a lot of smaller articles to electronic (pdf) format. This section will be constantly updated with
new additions to my personal reference library. Please email me if you are
interested in receiving copies of any listed Articles. January 2008: A month of two new discoveries, all of which were previously
unrecorded: ·
Forgeries: 3-1/8c 1864 Queen
Isabella II issue - Scott #21F7 ·
Specimens: 2m Green Newspaper
Stamp with Type 3 Muestra Overprint – Scott #P14 Further expansion has been done to include known stamps and
covers with Postal Cancellations covering the King Alfonso XII period. August 2007: Changes to the Isabella Stamps section providing details of the
plates of the 1854 issue. This amends the original classification of the 10c
Black from a proof to being plate one of this issue. King Amadeo and First Spanish Republic
Stamp Forgeries - New Sections created detailing known forgeries between 1871
and 1874, excluding the Habilitado por la Nacion overprints. The Habilitado overprints will be added in due course. Expansion to include known stamps and covers with Postal
Cancellations up to the 1874 July 2007 Three more Isabella forgeries have been added: Scott #1F9, Scott
#6F16 and Scott #23F3. The last one is thanks to another new find by Don
Peterson. Thanks again to Don for sending me another batch of forgeries to
review and comment on. I have re-classified the 3-1/8c stamps that were previously
believed to be Essays of the 1864 issue as forgeries. These are now listed as
Scott #F21F6 and are known to exist in shades of black and rose. One of these
stamps has been sent to Comex to obtain formal
certification to verify this conclusion. June 2007: New Section added: Philippine Military Mail to Cochinchina. This details the history of the
French-Spanish Campaign in Indochina, including Filipino involvement between
1858 and 1862. A total of six known covers are shown, all addressed to
Ignacio Garreta, an engineer on the Spanish warship
‘Jorge Juan’, which was one of two Spanish naval ships that made regular mail
and supply runs between Manila and Indochina to support the Spanish and
Filipino soldiers. May 2007: Layout of the website has been modified in an aim to consolidate
the sections which hopefully makes navigating the site easier. I have re-established the Queen Isabella Covers Section. Aim is
to highlight as many of the key covers as I can for the issues with low
numbers of known covers. For other issues (1856, 1859 and 1864) to depict a
few interesting covers and mixed postal cancellations as well as usage. If
anyone has a cover they wish to add to the site, please send me a scan and
will be happy to include. Work is currently underway on updating the Postal Cancellation
section. A long way to go to get it populated but will be interesting to come
up with what we know as the earliest and latest usage of each of the
different postal cancellations. I am sure these will change dramatically over
time, but will be good to have a centralised database for known examples and
corresponding dates. March 2007: Four more Isabella forgeries were added to the site (#6F15,
#11F3, #21F5, and #23F2). Also updated to reference four existing forgeries
as created by the Senf Brothers (#2F1, #4F1, #7F1
and #16F2). It still amazes me that there are yet more forgeries for this
first Spanish period. General tidy up on the forgeries was also carried out.
This part of the site is now fully updated with all known forgeries of the
Isabella period. I am sure there are others out there waiting to be included. November 2006: Three new sections have been added – ‘Gutter Pairs’, ‘B32 HongKong Handstamps’ and
‘Municipal Town Cancels’. As always, please forward any additional
information to help expand these and any other sections of the website. New Specimen find – 5c 1871 issue, previously unrecorded as having
the Muestra overprint. Table has been updated to
now show that each value of this set is known with the Type 1 Specimen
overprint. July 2006: Thanks to fellow forgery collector Carl Walske,
we have added a further 4 forgeries to the Isabella section (#1F8, 4F9, 10F4,
22F4 plus one more that I managed to obtain in a mixed lot through ebay (#24F4). |
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