A cover from the War of 1000 days in Colombia

In the last post I showed some of the stamps printed by Seebeck for the Colombian State of Bolivar.

During the civil war of 1899-1902 (War of 1000 days) a series of provisional issues were made in parts of the country cut off from Bogotá: Cartagena, Cucuta, Tumaco, Barranquilla, Medellin.

In 1899 the Cartagena provisional government overprinted the 1c Seebeck issue of 1891 with wavy lines supposedly for foreign postings.


Cartagena to San Jose, Costa Rica
6 times the foreign letter rate of 10c -- 60c
Registration -- 10c

This is the only cover bearing this stamp that Bill Welch or I have ever seen. This is from Bill's collection. Do you know of another?

A Seebeck Issue for the Colombian State of Bolivar

Between 1882 and 1891, the Hamilton Bank Note Company (Seebeck) produced stamps for the Colombian State of Bolivar.

Shown here is a sales representative’s sample card with the issues of 1882-1883. These stamps were produced during the one year that Hamilton and Seebeck were at 61 Broadway in New York City.



This is another nice item from the Bill Welch collection of Seebeck items.

The link to the Argentina blog

Here is the link to the Argentina blog http://arg3551.blogspot.com/

A Blog on Argentina Philately

A few days ago I received an email telling me about a stamp collecting blog, “30 stamp Collecting Blogs from Around the World” http://www.changeofaddress.org/blog/2010/30-stamp-collecting-blogs-from-around-the-world/ Although this blog is dedicated to stamp collecting rather than philately, I did find a link that would be well worth while to any philatelist interested in Argentina. This link is This link is http://arg3551.blogspot.com/ and it contains an in-depth study of many of the stamps of Argentina. I wish to thank Sheryl for sending the link to me and it contains an in-depth study of many of the stamps of Argentina. I wish to thank Sheryl for sending the link to me.