$70.00
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Listed variety printed in green instead of the issued red. An early Seebeck. Ungummed as printed with no previous hinging.$75.00
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This issue was overprinted to avoid speculation, when it was discovered that the Italian printer was selling additional copies on the side. Fresh appearance, Sanabria expertization mark to reverse.$500.00
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Unlisted in Scott but listed by Gibbons as SG 480a. Four expertisation marks to reverse, including Sanabria and Kessler. Very well centered. Pencil notation. A Venezuelan and Air Post rarity.
$975.00
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Full four margin example of this classic invert with 1872 Emsing Class 5.2 cancel. In excellent condition with well balanced margins and no evidence of prior hinging. Expertization mark to reverse together with Diena signature in pencil. 1962 Diena certificate.$490.00
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A very well centered example of this popular invert. Only 300 inverted examples printed (many off center). Small ink mark to bottom right perf tip.$140.00
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50c orange brown and black plate proof pair with inverted center, unrecorded by Kneitschel (only recording a perforate 50c invert with steel blue vignette). On thin paper, ungummed as printed.
$175.00
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Complete unmounted mint sheet of twenty-five stamps, overprinted Habilitado with the cancellation bar either shifted or missing entirely. The bar was supposed to delete the word OFICIAL, thus converting the stamp to regular postal use. South American Banknote Company imprint on all four sides, plus sheet number to upper right. Hinge remnants on the selvedge only.$75.00
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Unmounted mint example of the 'OFICIAL OFICIAL' error, which should read SERVICIO OFICIAL. Not easily found MNH.$40.00
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Corner marginal horizontal imperf listed variety. Expertizers/owners mark to reverse with light gum toning. Bottom stamp is MNH.$70.00
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The overprint should read DIEZ but is misprinted DIFZ on the stamp on the right (position 18). Note also the dropped DO in HABILITADO. A scarce variety with only one example sold on eBay in the past twenty years.$30.00
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Double row of perforations in between the pair. Hinge remnant.$50.00
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Columbus pair, imperforate horizontally between. MNH on the lower stamp, LM Mint on the upper stamp.$45.00
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Pair imperforate horizontally between the stamps. No reprints were made of this issue. Hinge remnant on the upper stamp, together with some mild toning; the bottom stamp is MNH.$40.00
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Marginal pair imperforate vertically between the stamps. No reprints were made of this issue. Hinge remnant.$70.00
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Pair of the 2p brown and black perforated along the horizontal edges only, imperforate vertically. Hinge remnant, pin hole in the lower part of the central margin.$95.00
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Top value of the President Luis Bogran issue with inverted head variety; a scarce stamp. Small thin and hinge remnant.
$740.00
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Imperforate and printed on both sides, an unused gutter block of eighteen, consisting of two blocks of nine with a vertical gutter in between, printed in a dark shade of ocher. On the reverse of the left block of nine are two and a half vertical rows printed in the regular ocher shade. Normal vertical fold in the gutter and very faint creases through each vertical row. Without gum as usual. A rare error block.$75.00
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$150.00
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One of the tougher Rail Bond surcharge errors to find, especially unmounted mint.$125.00
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ecntavo error, displaying identical oversized height and wide bottom margin as illustrated in G1. Lightly used with expertiser's mark in violet to reverse, showing slightly through the vignette.$125.00
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Scarce surcharge error with the additional benefit of being very well centered.$120.00
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Horizontally imperf pair from the bottom of the sheet. Disturbed, cracked gum, about 75% remaining. Two hinge remnants.$325.00
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A fresh example of this well-known error, with full gum. Small hinge remant.$460.00
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Small Quetzal inverted center with CTO cancellation.$440.00
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1881 Small Quetzal with inverted center and CTO concentric circle cancel. Hinge remnant.$275.00
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Block of eighteen stamps showing the double 1c surcharge error, currently unpriced in Scott. The block contains the 'dropped n in Centavo' variety, only found in position 27 on the sheet (middle row, second from right). The block is MNH, inferring CTO with a mute violet star in circle cancel. A scarce item.$30.00
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Marginal pair, imperforate on all vertical sides. Pencil notation to reverse.$30.00
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Ocean Steamship pair, imperforate on all vertical sides. Hinge remnant and pencil notation.$30.00
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Hinge remnants and pencil notation to reverse.$30.00
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Pencil notation to reverse.$30.00
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Marginal pair, imperforate between on the top stamp and imperforate top and bottom on the lower stamp. Small hinge remnants.$35.00
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Marginal pair with Hamilton Banknote imprint. Vertical imperforate on both sides for the left hand stamp and imperf between for the right hand stamp. Pencil notation.
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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.$70.00
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Just 300 examples of the 15c on 25c orange were created. The overprint was accidentally applied to three panes of the Waterlow 25c Orange Cocos Island issue, instead of the issued 15c on 50c (the two issued stamps are also supplied for comparison). Owner's/expertizer's mark on all three.$240.00
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Unmounted marginal example of the perf.12 1911 Bulnes inverted head. Under catalogued (a hinged copy sold at auction in January 2021 for $325). Two light tone spots to reverse.$165.00
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Printed in 1923 but uncirculated (see note after Scott 141). Pencil notation to reverse.$120.00
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Fresh, good centering, a little to the right.$45.00
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Top horizontal perforations omitted. Hinged in the selvedge only, pencil notation to front.$45.00
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Incomplete perfs to lower vertical sides. One stamp MNH.$45.00
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Fresh.
$35.00
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Distinctive inverted V shaped plate flaw to bottom right stamp. Lighly mounted in the selvedge only.
$45.00
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Distinctive full offset of the center vignette. MNH on the gummed side, LM Mint on the face.$80.00
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The first stamp is full perf, the second part perf on three sides and the third is part perf on two sides only. MNH (LM Mint on the selvedge). Sanabria stamp to reverse. Cefilco 440a. Scarce.
$145.00
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Tiahuanacu excavations set plus fourteen of the nineteen values in blocks, including high values. Finally issued with surcharges in 1960. Listed as a footnote in Scott, priced at €100 per set in Michel. On three written up album pages with first hinge, MNH on three stamps of each block.$140.00
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Marginal corner block quadruple perforation error. Perf 13.5 x 12.5. MNH to upper two stamps.$65.00
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Distinctive paper fold error. Perf. 13.5 x 12.5 on unwatermarked paper. MNH with previous hinging on the selvedge.$260.00
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Horizontal imperf pair with part ABNC imprint in the distinctive brown lake shade. GJ 54PH reddish lilac. Top stamp has a hinge remnant, bottom stamp is MNH. Scarce.$145.00
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Very unusual ABNC specimen block of eight. The center stamp has been carefully removed and replaced with a glued note by the archivist, stating in manuscript "1 Stamp in Vault with plate". The only example of this practice I've seen.$75.00
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Positional piece with selvedge on three sides, Bortfeldt Stone B., Gustav Michelsen reprint block of thirty stamps. Mostly MNH, very light traces of hinge marks on nine of the stamps. Small 1cm tear into the selvedge on right hand margin. RPSL certificate.
$75.00
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Printed from the original Perkins Bacon plates under the direction of Mr. Liechtenstein who had acquired the plates from the estate of Esteban Latour. Second printing on stout, white wove paper. No watermark, without gum as printed.
