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The PhilatelicNICARAO Journal of the Nicaragua Study Group November 2012 Special Issue for Chicagopex 2012 Volume 21, Number 5 Whole Number 83 Seventeen pages of glorious Nicaragua CONTENTS in 100-year-old Maury stamp album Seventeen pages of Michael Schreiber glorious Nicaragua in 100-year-old This special issue of Nicarao study group’s Yahoo site for clubs. Maury stamp album shows for the first time in color all This issue of Nicarao shows the Michael Schreiber . 1 17 pages of Nicaragua in the circa 17 pages in all their glory. Maury stamp album: 1910 Maury stamp album sold The pages are from a circa 1910 Issues of 1862-1871, piecemeal at auction in 2000. two-volume, leather-bound album 1882-1889, 1890 . 3 Nicaragua Study Group member purchased in the 1950s by a French Maury stamp album: Peter Marshall bought the 17 pages industrialist and collector. The col- issues of 1891 . 4 in the David Feldman public auc- lector added to the album, with the tion held in February 2000. goal of forming a world collection Maury stamp album: Marshall wrote about his pur- as complete as possible. issues of 1892 . 6 chase and pictured two pages in the In the album, Nicaragua com- Maury stamp album: July 2000 issue of Nicarao. prised pages numbered 808 through issues of 1893 . 7 Those images were not in color, 824. Pictured below is page 819, Maury stamp album: but some of the album pages were completely filled with the 1899 issues of 1894 . 9 later displayed in color online on the Continued on page 3 Maury stamp album: issues of 1895 9 Maury stamp album: issues of 1896-1897 . 10 Maury stamp album: issues of 1898 . 12 Maury stamp album: issues of 1899 . 12 Maury stamp album: issues of 1900-1902 . 13 Maury stamp album: issues of 1903 . 16 Maury stamp album: issues of 1904-1905 . 16 Maury stamp album: issues of 1906-1909 . 17 Bylaws . 19 Page 819 in the circa 1910 Maury stamp album provides spaces for the 1899 postage, Milestones . 20 Official and postage due stamps as well as the Mount Momotombo postage stamps of 1900. 2 N I C A R A O November 2012 Page 808 of the Maury album displays the issues of 1862-1888. The page omits spaces for the rouletted stamps of 1878-1880. THE NICARAGUA STUDY GROUP We promote and study the postage and revenue stamps of Nicaragua and their usage. Founder: Clyde R. Maxwell 1921-1996 PRESIDENT: EDITOR: SECRETARY: TREASURER: Neal West Michael Schreiber Michael Schreiber Michael Schreiber 303 Bluffview Court 1780 Normandy Lane 1780 Normandy Lane 1780 Normandy Lane Portage WI 53901 Troy OH 45373 Troy OH 45373 Troy OH 45373 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MEMBERSHIP: The Nicaragua Study Group is open to any- MANUSCRIPTS: Manuscripts for publication in this jour- one interested in the stamps and postal history of Nicaragua. nal should be sent to the editor by e-mail as Microsoft NSG annual dues, which include a subscription to the Word files, plain text files and jpg files, but the editor can quarterly journal Nicarao, are U.S. $20 per year for U.S. work with almost any type of file. The editor also can help addresses, $25 per year for addresses outside the U.S., or with scanning of stamps or covers. $10 per year for those requesting only an electronic subscrip- LETTERS AND QUESTIONS: Letters and questions for tion to Nicarao (Please provide your e-mail address). Send publication should be sent to the editor. Short cited quota- your U.S. bank check or money order payable to “Michael tions are encouraged. Permission for extensive use of the Schreiber,” Nicaragua Study Group secretary-treasurer (checks published material in Nicarao may be obtained through in U.S. dollars through a U.S. bank). Dues also are payable the editor. Authors retain the copyright to their articles. online through PayPal to [email protected] at slightly higher amounts: respectively, $21.20, $26.40 or $10.75. Copyright 2012 All rights reserved. November 2012 N I C A R A O 3 Page 809 displays the ten Seebeck postage stamps of 1890, the similar Official stamps and cuts of the five envelopes of 1890. Continued from page 1 Volcanos stamps of 1862-1871. It also includes filled postage (11), Official (only 3 of 11) and postage due spaces for cuts of the two 1888 envelopes but not the (6) stamps as well as the Mount Momotombo (13) 1889 “5 / CENTAVOS / 5” revalued envelope over- postage stamps of 1900. printed on the 10-centavo. Page 819 is one of three Nicaragua pages in the This envelope (an entire) would be a serious album that provide no spaces for postal stationery. All omission in an envelope collection today. The Maury other pages have spaces for envelope cut squares and album obviously did not strive for completeness, wrapper cut squares (but no cuts from postal cards). The printed stamp albums of the early publishers (who often also were stamp dealers) encouraged col- lectors of the period 1870 to 1910 to trim envelopes and wrappers to fit spaces in the albums. After the turn of the century, as stamp catalogs and dealer price lists grew in size, postal stationery was dropped from many stamp catalogs, and most albums ceased pro- viding spaces for cuts of envelopes and wrappers. Issues of 1862-1871, 1882-1889, 1890 Page 808 of the album (pictured page 2) includes Page 808 of the Maury album (page 2) does not provide a space representative examples of the perforated Maribios for a cut square of the 5-centavo-on-10-centavo envelope of 1889. 4 N I C A R A O November 2012 On page 810 of the Maury album, spaces for the postage and Official stamps of 1891 follow spaces for cuts of the wrappers of 1890. because it omits spaces for the rouletted postage Laying out the Nicaragua pages was a challenge stamps of 1878-80 (but includes two such stamps). for the album publisher. The 10-stamp sets of 1890 Page 808 includes a few stamps with partial can- overlap the page borders by at least one stamp, and cels that collectors will recognize. They include an the width of the printed border and of the page itself alphanumeric 3/G of Granada, a 7/L of Leon and a forces close spacing of the individual stamps. 13/N of San Juan del Norte, and a SUR duplex killer used during 1888-1895 in many towns. Issues of 1891 Three of these cancels are struck on the Coat of As with the 1890 issue, the album spreads the Arms stamps of 1882, issued to mark Nicaragua’s 1891 stamps, wrapper cuts and envelope cuts over admission to the Universal Postal Union. The UPU two pages. This split layout continues throughout issue is complete as shown on page 808. most of the 1890-99 Seebeck era. The year becomes Page 809 (on page 3) pictures the 10 denomina- synchronized with the page for the 1898 issue but tions of the first Seebeck issue, the Locomotive and soon reverts to a split layout. Telegraph Key design. These dual-purpose stamps are The 1891 issues all show a Goddess of Plenty inscribed “CORREOS” and “TELEGRAFOS.” Nicaragua design, as the Scott catalogs name it. issued no separate telegraph stamps in 1890. On page 810, the 1891 postage stamps are com- The set of 1890 postage stamps is complete, as are plete, as are the similar Official stamps, which are the set of overprinted ultramarine Official stamps and the same as the postage stamp denominations but are the sets of five Coat of Arms envelope cuts on page printed in green and overprinted in red “FRANQUEO 809 and three similar wrapper cuts on page 810. OFICIAL.” The Scott stamp catalogs note that the November 2012 N I C A R A O 5 Page 811 of the Maury album includes spaces for the 1891 first separately issued telegraph stamps, in new colors and overprinted. 1891 Official stamps are known without the red over- As the pages correctly show, the 1891 issue print (all denominations except the 2-centavo and the includes a 2-centavo postage stamp and a 2-centavo 5-centavo) and with double overprints. Official stamp but no 2-centavo telegraph stamp. The three mounted wrapper cuts of 1891 on page Three of the mounted 1891 telegraph stamps bear 811 are complete, but the five mounted envelope cuts parts of a dated Jinotega marking or markings. Not vis- of 1891 are missing one major variety: a 5-centavo ible is the tops of the marking or markings. They could white-paper envelope printed in two sizes. include the slogan TELEGRAFOS DE NICARAGUA This envelope exists in two sizes, according to the Higgins and Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog, 150 millimeters by 86 mm and 154 mm by 90 mm. The cut of the violet 50-centavo envelope of 1891 is faded, which is normal for that denomination of envelope of 1891. The 1891 telegraph stamps mounted on page 811 are complete by denomination, but the overprints on the stamps are mixed types. The 1-centavo stamp bears a serif TELEGRAFOS overprint, and the 10-centavo and 2-peso stamps bear a red sans-serif TELEGRAFOS overprint. The other tele- Page 811 of the Maury album does not provide a space for a graph stamps bear a black sans-serif TELEGRAFOS. cut square of a 5-centavo envelope of 1891 on white paper.