Postage stamps and postal history of Peru
In Pre-Columbian times, the
The newly created Republic of Peru began using lithographed stamps in 1857 that initially were provided by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, a British shipping service serving mail and trade at Western South America. a British shipping service serving mail and trade in western South America. The Peruvian government authorized, as essay, using only two PSNC stamps (1 real blue and 2 reales red) for mail in the Peruvian postal service, from December 1, 1857.
After a successful experience, Peru issued their own lithographed stamps in March 1858, in a three-values issue; this created the first stamp error in Peruvian philately: the half peso rose. Still, a lot of copies of Peru's PSNC stamps circulation were forged, with colors never circulated as state-sponsored mail, or fantasy cancellations.
Around 1860, the Peruvian government purchased a French-made device (the so-called "Lecoq" press) that was used to print, emboss and cut imperforate stamps from paper strips. This press was used in four stamps issued with national arms (1 dinero red, 1 peseta light brown, 1 dinero green, and 1 peseta orange). The commemorative stamp illustrated to the right (the "Trencito" or "little train" of 1870) was one of the last Peru produced on this rare machine, with the 2 centavos light blue (the "Llamita" stamp). After this issues, Peruvian postal service only used perforated stamps from 1874 onwards.
For a catalogue used by collectors to classify early Peruvian (imperforate) stamps by their cancellations, see Lamy (and Rinck).[3]
References
- ^ Stamps of the World Volume 3. Stanley Gibbons. 1955.
- ^ Corinphila Auktionen AG (2014). 187 Corinphila Stamp Auction. Classic Peru 1857-1873. The Julio Lugon Badaracco Collection (Part 1). Self-published. pp. 73–74.
- ^ Georges Lamy and Jacques-André Rinck (1955). Perou: étude des obliterations postales sur les émissions de 1857 a 1873. Self-published, trilingual, 330 copies printed.
Further reading
- Nicoletti, Gonzales Carlos. El Servicio Postal y filatélico en el Perú. 1991. Awarded the FIAF.
- Salvatteci, Aldo. Tratados Postales del Perú hasta su ingreso a la Unión Postal Universal. 2003.
External links
- Peru Philatelic Study Circle
- The Trencito and the Medals of Charles E. Bryant: A coincidence? by Antonio Llaveria.