Philippine jellyfishes

New Issue alert:

3rd Quarter Topical Issue featuring: Philippine Jellyfishes

May 31, 2016 The 3rd Quarter Topical Issue featuring: Philippine Jellyfishes Stamps and Official First Day Covers will be available starting September 23, 2015 at the Post Shop, Philately and Museum Division, Manila Central Post Office, Door 203, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila and at all Regional Offices of the Philippine Postal Corporation.

Manila 400th forgery

Genuine

Forgery

In 1971 the 4th centennial of Manila was commemorated on two stamps, 10s and P1.

The P1 is airmail (panghimpapawid) and a forgery of it was made.

Was this a postal forgery at the time? Or is it a philatelic forgery made to look like an EFO?

surcharged Ninoy

This is a Ninoy Aquino P5 (surcharged on P3.60) cover, cancelled on Nov. 29, 2000. The surcharge was handstamped. (Addressee's name has been deleted electronically.)

Read all about this issue in...

http://www.philippinestamps.net/Library-Tak-Ninoy.htm#Library-Tak-Ninoy

Have fun!

'unofficial' official 1

Broken L and serif of S

It wasn't until 1926 when the post office during the American administration began issuing official stamps, but in 1905 permission was granted to overprint stamps for use on official mail.

Some of the pre-1926 stamps were handstamped with O.B. (top stamp), which stood for official business, or with OFFICIAL (bottom stamp).

Marahui

A duplex cancel of Camp Marahui in the then Moro Province, Philippine Islands.

Marahui must be the old spelling of Marawi.

The Camp Marahui post office was opened in 1904 and closed in 1905.

Looks like this stamp on piece was cancelled on the last day of the post office! 

1896 auction

This 1896 Canadian auction list has a Philippine lot:
1859, 1r green, used, very fine.

EFO 1963 Roxas credo

Normal Copy

Black inscriptions shifted to the left

Black inscriptions shifted to the left

This EFO of the 1963 Presidential credo series is unrecorded in the IPPS EFO catalog.

My EFO discovery earlier this month.

The black has to touch the blue, to be considered dramatic.

Rizal's hair

The top stamp was issued in 1941, and the bottom stamp in 1946.

Top stamp portrays Rizal with hair parted to the left, and bottom stamp shows him with hair parted to the right!

first oath taking on stamp

The first Philippine stamp to show a president taking the oath of office was issued during the Commonwealth period on Feb. 8, 1940.

There were three values showing President Manuel Quezon's formal oath-taking, as follows:

2c dark orange
6c dark green
12c purple

Together with the Triumphal Arch issue and the Malacañan issue, this set likewise commemorated the 4th anniversary of the Commonwealth.

BCC auction May 2016

Some 60 philatelic lots are listed in the Bayanihan Collectors Club auction scheduled for today at the Ortigas Foundation Library.
 
These include some Spanish-Philippine stamps and postal cards, Japanese Occupation stamps and covers, and Republic FDCs and slogan covers.

first Malacañan stamp

The first time Malacañan Palace was pictured on stamps came out during the Commonwealth period.

Issued on Nov. 15, 1939, there were three values:

2c green
6c orange
12c carmine

Together with the Triumphal Arch issue, this set commemorated the 4th anniversary of the Commonwealth.

Triumphal Arch

A set of three stamps was issued on Nov. 15, 1939, for the Commonwealth Triumphal Arch, in the following values:

2c yellow green
6c carmine
12c bright blue

First Foreign Trade Week

Two USPI and one Commonwealth stamps were overprinted for the First Foreign Trade Week scheduled from May 21 to 27, 1939, but these were issued on July 5, 1939.

gold bullion

A set of two high values (P10 and P20), same design but different in color, were issued on August 27, 1937.

Harradine's handbook notes the following: "It had been discovered that, mainly through the need to prepay adequate postage (and insurance!) on small bars of gold and silver bullion, it was necessary to issue stamps of higher denominations in order to save plastering such parcels with stamps of lower values...." 

Small Commonwealth

The 1935 pictorials were overprinted Commonwealth a second time.

These are known as the SMALL COMMONWEALTH overprint.

Not shown above are the P4 Montalban Gorge and the P5 George Washington.

Tiaong

New Issue alert:

Municipality of Tiaong Quezon: 325th Founding Anniversary

May 14, 2016
The Municipality of Tiaong, Quezon 325th Founding Anniversary Stamps and Official First Day Covers will be available starting May 14, 2016 at the Post Shop, Philately and Museum Division, Manila Central Post Office, Door 19, Liwasang Bonifacio, Manila and at all Regional Offices of the Philippine Postal Corporation.

Large Commonwealth

The 1935 pictorials were overprinted during the Commonwealth period.

These are known as the LARGE COMMONWEALTH overprint.

Not shown above is the P4 Montalban Gorge.