$50.00
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With network. Scott 'Type c', thin figures overprint. Partial strike of Santo Domingo Franca handstamp.$60.00
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With network.$55.00
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Without network. Full gum (toned). Hinge remnant.$60.00
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With network. Scott 'Type a', thick figures. Inverted overprint with oval Franca handstamp.$55.00
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With network. Scott 'Type c', thin figures. Excellent gum. Pencil notation to reverse.$170.00
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With network, thin figures overprint. Heavy hinge, toning along right-hand edge.$690.00
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Without network. A very fine copy of one of the key stamps of the Dominican Republic. Expertiser's signature to reverse. Hinge remnant.$165.00
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With network, thick figures overprint. Light oval cancellation with no prior hinging.$80.00
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Corner marginal strip of three displaying a tete beche center stamp from the top of the sheet. Pencil mark on the selvedge. Scarce.$90.00
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Mostly VLM Mint. A couple of hinge remnants.$115.00
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A scarce error, created when the first E of ENTEGRA ESPECIAL (appearing at the top of E2) was not obliterated in one of the cliches. This error is found on only one stamp in every sheet of E3. Just 500 were printed, with the number of survivors from postal use being even lower. Very undercatalogued. Short perf to bottom left corner.$30.00
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Top value to the set. Hinge remnant.$50.00
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A dark ultramarine shade, clear impression with complete 8th November 1867 Alausi cancel. An elusive cancellation.
$125.00
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Crisp impression in a blue shade, sent to Quito from Ibarra and tied by 3rd August 1867 cancellation. Small hole in centre of wrapper.$55.00
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Early impression with crisp lines and superb definition. Four large margins and clear cancellation. A premium copy.$225.00
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One of the scarcest cancellations of the second issue with less than six copies of the red Manta CDS known.
$490.00
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A used proof sounds counter-intuitive but it would appear that a small number of plate proofs were co-opted for postal use; no imperforate stamps are known. Four margins with black rhombus quarter-strike to lower right. The reverse is equally interesting, showing offset in blue of the shield design. One of the scarcest items of the second issue of Ecuador with only one other known.$95.00
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An early franking from 1875 on piece. Particularly desirable as this red cancellation was only used in Quito for a short period of time.
$160.00
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ABNC sunken die proof depicting a train climbing the Devil's Nose in central Ecuador. Not issued as far as I can tell but a great railway thematic.
$45.00
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Hamilton Bank Note Company 3c postal card to Bremen with handwritten message on reverse. Guayaquil CDS, Bremen reeiving stamp and oval Kruger forwarder's handstamp. H&G 11.$40.00
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Rounded o shape to the 9's in 1894 and 1895, as per D'Elia and Armitage catalogue. Some gum disturbance but a large part original gum.$120.00
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Full set of eight specimen values, four of which are marginal, all with punch holes. The stamps are MNG due to being stored in the basement of the printer, Waterlow, which was flooded during World War II, after the German bombing of London. Horizontal crease on the 50c value.$125.00
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Corner marginal multiple of twenty-five unmounted mint stamps.$45.00
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Corner marginal unmounted mint multiple of twenty-five stamps. Some foxing around the selvedge.$190.00
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Unmounted mint multiple of twenty-eight stamps. A few tone spots.$55.00
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A very fresh MNH block of the top value to the set.$65.00
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Expertiser's/owner's markto reverse. Pencil notation.$110.00
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Two ABNC plate proofs, mounted to card with paper adhesions to reverse.$60.00
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Waterlow file copies with hole punch. Part set, missing 2c and 50c values. These stamps are MNG and show partial water damage from being stored in the basement of the printer which was flooded during World War II after the German bombing of London.$75.00
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Only 900 copies overprinted.$45.00
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SCADTA first printing with Provisional at the 45 degree angle. Only 4,200 issued. Slight toning.$170.00
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Only 1,000 stamps overprinted. Expertization mark to reverse.$65.00
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Only 3000 issued.$75.00
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Catalogued at less than the mint but much more elusive as a used stamp.$125.00
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Just 2000 copies issued. Undercatalogued.$50.00
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Only 4278 of the 10s value issued.
$775.00
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Complete set in unmounted mint blocks of four. Only 2,000 sets printed. Attractive and scarce as blocks.
$390.00
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Set of three ABNC die proofs on India paper, two mounted to card. An unusual design for ABNC with MULTAS embossed over the engraved design.
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$490.00
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The scarcest stamp in the 1929-1944 airmail series. The regular Mendez Bogota-Quito overprint of 1930 was printed in red-brown ink with a print run of 5,000. However, one sheet of 100 only was overprinted in black. A very difficult stamp. Unlisted in Scott, Sanabria 50. Two expertization signatures on the reverse.$55.00
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Overprinted onto the Officials, hence the three 'wheel' symbols in the center of the stamp. Only 5,000 sets overprinted.
$35.00
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Airmail cover from the German Embassy in Quito to Hamburg, displaying 4 x 20c violet and 2 x 50c dark red Aero overprint stamps from 1936, plus a further 10c brown from the Darwin series. German Embassy seal to reverse.$75.00
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Choice unmounted mint with each stamp selected as marginals with colored guide lines in the selvedge.$45.00
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Both sets VLM mint. Light toning to reverse, not affecting fronts.
$290.00
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Two ABNC die proofs depicting an attractive Guayaquil scene. India paper mounted to card in the issued colors.
$490.00
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Complete set of ABNC die proofs in the issued colors. Printed on India paper, mounted to card.
$150.00
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Ex. ABNC archives, printer's photographic black print on satin faced light card. Probably unique.
$60.00
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Pro Patria commemorative overprint service stamps. Erroneously listed in Scott as essays, these were a private overprint on an official stamp. The red AERO overprint is particularly scarce with only 1000 copies printed. MNG as issued.
$225.00
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Waterlow intermediate die proof for the 20c value, omitting the vignette of Rooseveldt. Die number handwritten in upper left corner, cylinder number in upper right and proof number in lower left. Includes two MNH blocks of file copy proofs of the finished stamp with punch holes and "checked for colour" notation in the selvedge, dated five months before the stamps went on sale. Unique.
$390.00
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ABNC archive progressive die proofs with blank value tablet. Designed as consular service stamps in 1947, the fiscal issues were overprinted in a range of values for postal use in 1951. On India paper mounted to Index Copy cards. Unique.$30.00
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Pencil notation to reverse.
