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During the 1920’s is very rare to find Costa Rica stamps used in correspondence to Africa. Recently came to my hands one of those extremely rare piece of Costa Rica stamps’ postal history from the 1920’s. A beautiful postcard depicting passengers getting into a train to depart from Limón to San José. That’s nice, but … Read more Costa Rica Stamps: Unique Jesús Jiménez Issue Usage To Algeria
Rare use of a cuban postal censor in Costa Rica air mail. Air mail cover from Esso Standard Oil with double WWII censor. Sent via air mail in May 18th, 1945 (11 days after Germany surrended). As mentioned before, this cover has two censors. One “defensa continental” censorship tape, which is really common in Costa … Read more Costa Rica Stamps – Air Mail Cover with cuban postal censor and 5 colones from Legislacion Social
Are you that kind of philatelic enthusiast that likes to surf the web looking for pics of stamps from time to time? Well, here I am to help you! I know that looking at stamps can be hypnotizing. I know that once you start, you’ll leave your computer until you saw the last one. I’ve … Read more Costa Rica: pics of stamps – lots of pictures
It’s the dream of every stamp collector to own the world’s rarest postage stamps. For most of us it is indeed just a dream. 9 years ago, the philatelic world had the chance to witness the auction of the biggest Costa Rica stamp collection. In October 22nd, 2008 Spink Shreves Galleries sold at an unreserved … Read more World’s rarest postage stamps. Greatest Costa Rica items from the Frederick R. Mayer Collection
For no reason the issues from the early 1920’s are hard to find used on cover. The most difficult to find on cover is Scott 111J which consist in an overprint for coffee promotion that reads “COMPRE UD. CAFE DE COSTA RICA”. There are only 13 covers known with that stamp. Scott 111J has an … Read more Costa Rica Stamps – Incredible cover with Scott 111k “VD” instead “UD” coffee promotion