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Other Issues / Modern Mexico 1971-2017
« on: October 22, 2019, 02:42:48 PM »
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I have a complete run of modern Mexico stamps in mint never hinged condition from 1971-2017 to dispose of. This includes the Exporta Series complete specialized varieties by etiangui numbers except the two costliest stamps. I am willing to accept a small percentage of Scott values to find them to a good home. Let me know if interestred and we discuss.[/size][/font]
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Exporta / Exporta collection for sale
« on: August 13, 2019, 12:06:08 AM »
 For Sale: Exporta Series complete mint never hinged major varieties by etiangui numbers except: [1] $20 Hierro, paper 5, 37.5 mm (etiangui #ex93), black; and [2] $20 Hierro, paper 6, black-gray (etiangui #ex113). Also set of blocks showing paper types 1-7. Plus about 40 covers and several pages of duplicates, mint and used. Enquiries welcome.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Mexico Books on offer
« on: October 30, 2018, 04:22:55 PM »
After a period I have been able to dispose of a number of books. However, I still have the following available, with the price being the cost of postage only. This is my way of sharing with the hobby.

Bob Watson


Mexican Maritime Mail. Karl H. Schimmer & John M. Heath. James Bendon. 1997.
Mexico’s Revenue Stamps. Michael D. Roberts ed. MEPSI. 2011.
Mexico’s Denver Printing of 1914. Ron Mitchell. The Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library. 2010.
Handbook of Classic Mexico: Colonial era through 1874 Issue. Mark E. Banchick. 2002.
Porte de Mar. Karl H. Schimmer. MEPSI. 1987.
The Travelling Post Offices of Mexico. Jay Grace Walmsley. Second Edition. 2014.
Mexico – The 1868 Issue, A Specialist Handbook. John Heath and Doug Stout. James Bendon. 2004.
Características de Algunas Falsificaciones de Timbres de México (Characteristics of Some Forgeries of Mexican Stamps) . Roberto Liera Gutiérrez. 2007.
Introduction to the Stamps of Mexico. Dale Pulver. Linn’s Stamp News. 1992.
A Catalogue of the Stamps of Mexico 1856–1910. Nicholas Follansbee. Fourth Edition. 2014.
The Stamps of the Mexican Revolution 1913–1916. Nicholas Follansbee. The Collectors Club of Chicago. 1966.
Mexico, Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810–1996. Enrique Krauze. Harper Perennial. 1997.
The Imperial Eagles of Maximilian’s Mexico. Leo V. Corbett. Mexico Philatelic Library Association. 1993.

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Miscellaneous / Mexico Books on offer
« on: August 18, 2018, 10:56:23 PM »
Hi all
A few of you may be aware that I am quitting Mexico. I had reached my limits and need to downsize my collections somewhat. As you may also know, I am in New Zealand so postage costs quite a bit to other places overseas. So I have decided to mail any book you want for the cost of postage only. Please contact me off board with your wants and I will respond with the postage to your address. That will make for a number of bargains.
Regards,
Bob Watson

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Dealer announcements / Re: Any news from Spuff ?
« on: January 20, 2018, 01:29:44 PM »
I just received this from Spuff:
Hi Guys,

If you are not a “Spuffnstuff” customer, please ignore this email.

I think I am now in my last week in hospital (Saturday 20/01/2018). I apologize for all the delay in mailing your lots but it is totally beyond my control.

Please, please rest assured that on my return home, I will commence mailing out your winning lots from the week before Christmas onwards. I have just had a negative pressure pump attached to my ‘great wound’ and this is a routine step.

I can’t wait to get back in my office and do the right thing by you all. Once again please be patient a little longer.

All the best,
Spuff "

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Dealer announcements / Re: Any news from Spuff ?
« on: January 18, 2018, 12:12:58 PM »
Hi all
I've been out of touch myself for awhile. I knew about as much as you did, but I did receive this last week along with a number of others:
"If you are receiving this, it may mean nothing to you because you are in my addressbook. If you are a buyer of my weekly auctions, you will have heard that I have been in the hospital with Perforated Divertuticulitis since December 26th without direct access to my computer. If you have purchased anything since that date on my auction site spuffnstuff, please rest assured that your stamps will be sent and the feedback will be left for all items purchased. I’m sorry for any inconvenience and please be informed thay my auctions will recommence within days of my being discharged from hospital. I’m sending this to my whole address book to make sure that nobody, who is a customer, has been left out of this news update. There will therfore be no new auctions starting AFTER 21st January until I’m home to make new lots. Please keep bidding and I know that after 19years the mutual trust as client/seller stands as all in good stead. No emails to this address will be answered until I’m home which may be up to three weeks from now."
I wish him well.

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Post-classic Stamps 1900 - 1940 / Re: Postal Rates in Early 20th Century
« on: December 03, 2016, 12:12:44 PM »
Hi Peter
That helps to narrow down when the international postcard rate changed. It would be great to find a document that laid out all the rates at the effective date in 1902. That formula lettercard adds the rates to the USA according to the treaty effective July 1, 1887.
Many thanks, Bob

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Post-classic Stamps 1900 - 1940 / Scott 734 dimensions
« on: October 17, 2016, 07:34:06 PM »
Can anyone provide the dimensions of this stamp, please? This is the Arms of Chiapas stamp originally issued in 1935, but later issued in 1937 on paper watermarked Lines and SECRETARIA DE HACIENDA MEXICO. The Scott catalog seems to imply that it's the smaller size format (17.5 x 21 mm), but I think it is the larger format (20 x 26 mm). [Those are the dimensions of the design alone.]
Regards,
Bob Watson

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Post-classic Stamps 1900 - 1940 / Scott 735B
« on: September 18, 2016, 08:11:43 PM »
The Scott catalogue says: "The listing of No. 735B is being re-evaluated. The Catalogue Editors would appreciate any information on the stamp." I understand that a good MEPSI certificate has been issued for at least one copy. Can anyone confirm the existence of this stamp or of the certificate? (This is a 10c Cuauhtémoc type of 1923, but issued in 1934-37 on paper watermarked Lines and SECRETARIA DE HACIENDA MEXICO [wmk 260].)
Bob

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Post-classic Stamps 1900 - 1940 / Postal Rates in Early 20th Century
« on: September 08, 2016, 02:37:16 PM »
Is there a table of postal rates in the early 20th Century? I often find I want to check the rate on a cover to ensure it's an example of correct usage. For instance, I have a postal card sent to Germany in 1901 at 3 centavos. Is that the correct rate?

Bob Watson

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Stampless Mail from 1821 / Re: Can this really be 1819?
« on: August 01, 2016, 11:35:39 PM »
Hi Farley
That's consistent with the Falmouth departure of 18 March. I also searched on the UNAM site, but didn't find the arrival date at Veracruz. Bargholtz has it departing VCZ on 20 May for Tampico. This plus the 17 May newspaper date would make the ETA about or before 16 May.

BTW, the 2/3 in postage was made up of 2/1 Falmouth packet rate plus 2d inland rate to port, this according to Tabeart's book on British rates.
Bob

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Stampless Mail from 1821 / Re: Can this really be 1819?
« on: July 31, 2016, 11:47:02 PM »
Farley
Many thanks for your efforts. So that confirms it as 1840. That also fits with the Falmouth packet schedule for that year. According to Percy Bargholtz the Falmouth packet Lyra departed Falmouth on 18 March 1840. He was unable to find arrivals at Veracruz, but the Lyra did depart there on 20 May, so presumably it arrived a few days before.
Regards,
Bob

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Stampless Mail from 1821 / Re: Can this really be 1819?
« on: July 31, 2016, 02:30:56 PM »
Hi Farley
That's great and confirms that the apparent 1819 is 1840. It's very helpful to have the month confirmed as March and the post office as Old Cavendish Street. The only niggle I have is that the "0" in 1840 looks to me more like a "9". Is it possible this form of the Maltese cross was in use at that time too?
Cheers,
Bob

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Stampless Mail from 1821 / Can this really be 1819?
« on: July 30, 2016, 04:56:59 PM »
This small envelope appears to be postmarked in London in 1819. However, envelopes were charged as an extra sheet at this time, so were not used. Also, the 2/3 rate was for carriage by Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. vessels from 1842. Yet I can't see what the year could be. If 1849 the "4" should be wider. Can anyone help?

Bob

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Stampless Mail from 1821 / Re: "modern" stampless
« on: July 24, 2016, 01:41:03 PM »
Fernando

Many thanks.

Bob

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